The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/international-students/)
Noor Jehan Ahmad ’26, an international student from Pakistan, shared her family recipes with the Cornell community through Morrison Dining’s Pakistan Night.
Through multiple courses and club programming, Cornell supports ESL students to improve their language skills and better adapt to the English environment.
In recent years, many international students have faced unexpected and significant tax withholdings on their financial aid awards.
The life of an international Cornellian is rewarding yet challenging, especially during an ongoing pandemic. Some international students share their pandemic summer plans, both in Ithaca and abroad.
We need to do something to figure out a way to help international students, and the establishment of an International Student Committee is a good starting point. How can Cornell be a place espousing the beliefs of “any person any study” when we do not do our best to make sure that any person can truly get that any study?
International students at Cornell face unique challenges, especially during the pandemic, but the University’s diversity of students makes the campus feel special to these students.
Differing vaccine rollouts across countries have been creating difficulties for Cornell’s international students from delays in receiving FDA-approved doses to ongoing travel restrictions.
As Cornellians prepare for a fully in-person semester, some international students say they are struggling to meet the University’s requirement for students to receive an FDA-approved vaccine before arriving on campus this August.
For many international students, going home this semester means planning out a web of flights, navigating ambiguous travel and vaccination requirements and having to quarantine all over again.
Voicing frustration with resources that some feel are insufficient after a year of canceled research, funding tribulations and changed plans, graduate students are demanding more.