News
Prof. Monica Cornejo Shares Experiences as an Undocumented Immigrant in Academia
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Prof. Monica Cornejo, communication, who is an undocumented tenure-track faculty member, shared how breaking systemic barriers inspired her journey in academia.
Columns
LEVIN | Learning Can Be Uncomfortable. Good.
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Not long ago, our Student Assembly proposed a resolution that would force professors to excuse students who wish not to read, discuss or listen to any course material that offends them, including anything that refers to “sexual assault, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, child abuse, racial violence, transphobic violence, homophobic harassment, etc.” Conceivably, the resolution would apply to any and all social issues, triggers and distressing themes that a student might prefer not to engage with. The President and Provost annulled the resolution, reasoning that it stands against Cornell’s founding vision of free inquiry. On this matter, I agree with the administration.
Letters To
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Re: “Lifting the FeMale Gaze”
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In “Lifting the FeMale Gaze” Isabelle Pappas ‘23 writes that feminism has started to “confuse itself with female victimization.” Despite the author’s clear intentions to lift other women up, I strongly feel that this piece does more harm than good.
News
Profs. Craig Altier, Kyu Rhee Join Forces to Lead New Antimicrobial Resistance Center
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Prof. Craig Altier and Prof. Kyu Rhee are collaborating to co-direct the new Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education, with the aim of better understanding and improving treatments for microbes resistant to existing medications.
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Professors Living Outside of Ithaca Share Commuting Experiences
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Cornellians have unique modes of transportation to navigate around Ithaca campus. Professors shared their experiences commuting to the University.
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Following Red Alert, Professors Make Quick Shift to Fully Online Finals
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On Tuesday, as active student cases surpassed 400, Cornell moved all final exams online. But some professors had already moved exams online for some or all of their students earlier in the week, taking precautions as active student cases spiked on campus.
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DERY | What Social Media Means for the Next Generation’s Professor
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My friend was ecstatic when he thought he found his professor’s profile on Snapchat. We’d soon learn that the discovery was too good to be true; the account was not the professor’s, who quickly disappointed inquisitive students in a Piazza post. The greater irony is that as students, our communication with professors outside the classroom is indeed limited to Piazza, aside from email and now Zoom. However, as younger generations increasingly link themselves to the social media phenomenon, it begs the question how much longer this “distance” between professors and students will remain.
in-person classes
As Cornell Prepares for In-Person Classes, Parts of Zoom Era Learning Might Stay
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With President Martha Pollack’s announcement on the possibility of in-person classes next semester, professors are deciding what they might implement from their time online into the new semester.
Professors
Professors Jump Into In-Person Teaching After a Year of Zoom
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This semester, many professors are eager to be back in the physical classroom.
Columns
GHAZI | Professors: Go To Your Colleagues’ Zoom Classes
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The guinea pigs of Zoom University, the students, get poked and prodded with teaching tactics class after class every day. All professors want is for us to unmute and, for the love god, just learn. Students experience the entire spectrum of creative distance-learning teaching methods. Professors test just one experiment: their own.
Many undergraduates are now seasoned Zoomers who understand what it takes to make a classroom work because we have experienced what doesn’t. Professors, however, only know what engages a digital classroom in the context of their own courses.