Professors

Professors Living Outside of Ithaca Share Commuting Experiences

By Ally Fertig | April 25, 2022

Cornellians have unique modes of transportation to navigate around Ithaca campus. Professors shared their experiences commuting to the University.

Following Red Alert, Professors Make Quick Shift to Fully Online Finals

By Tamara Kamis | December 17, 2021

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

By Roei Dery | May 9, 2021

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.

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As Cornell Prepares for In-Person Classes, Parts of Zoom Era Learning Might Stay

By Gabrielle Gonzalez | April 7, 2021

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 Jump Into In-Person Teaching After a Year of Zoom

By Asha Patt | February 18, 2021

This semester, many professors are eager to be back in the physical classroom.

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GHAZI | Professors: Go To Your Colleagues’ Zoom Classes

By Paris Ghazi | February 16, 2021

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.