The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/human_ecology/)
For prospective students from New York State, navigating Cornell’s private and in-state colleges may be daunting — The Sun spoke with in-state first-year students about their recent experiences in applying to Cornell’s contract colleges.
Dozens of volunteers filled Bartels Hall on an empty Cornell campus to cut and sew surgical masks to aid local medical facilitites.
Every person, company and institution in the United States (and several other countries) are related to policy.
Student Assembly denounces a proposal calling for the change of the Cornell School of Human Ecology to the School of Public Policy, over an hour before the University announced it had decided on a different tack.
New school of Public Policy is announced after months of conflict and debate.
At an Employee Assembly meeting on Jan. 16, the future of the College of Human Ecology came into question.
Over eight months since its founding in March, the Social Sciences Implementation Committee, created to help bolster Cornell’s public policy programs, has moved closer to making a recommendation — though its proposals have garnered push back from students and faculty.
Cornell’s lack of a comprehensive public policy school is one of its major Achilles heels. Harvard and Princeton both have world-renowned programs named for influential presidents; Cornell has a messy organization of similar but ununified programs. While this university ranks 17th on US News & World Report’s list of best national universities, it comes in at 35th in respect to public affairs. This puts Cornell behind four Ivies, four schools in the Empire State and 10 land-grant universities. While I have found the MPA program at Cornell to be incredibly rewarding and deserving of a much higher rank, the lack of cohesion amongst its public policy education programs appears to be a detriment to its national stature. In Cornell’s decentralized, fragmented environment, the education of future policy leaders feels to be an afterthought by the University as a whole.
“There are not designers moving forward that are going to identify with ‘policy.’ That is not our focus, and it has nothing to do with us,” said design and environmental analysis major Brandon Hoak ’21. “This is my college experience and you can drastically change it forever.”
“Every fashion or textile item worn atop or around the body has some kind of texture, yet the open-ended and vague nature of the prompt encouraged students to find an array of interesting and unique pieces,” Green said.