Education

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Faculty Call on Trustees to Oppose Political Interference in Higher Education

Editor’s Note: The following letter was submitted to the editor on April 16 2025 and was released on April 17 2025 to the Cornell...

Women’s Higher Education Now Fundraises to Make up For Trump Administration’s Funding Cuts

Cornell’s Women Higher Education Now is taking action to protect women’s access to education following the loss of federal funding that once sustained the...

Department of Education Appears to Relax Stance on DEI Ban

The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights released a “Frequently Asked Questions” document on Feb. 28 clarifying its stance on the Feb. 14...

Finding Little Joys: Romanticizing Your Education at Cornell

By Mary Ellison Seeing the good in an 8 or 9 a.m. class is hard. Sometimes, it’s hard to haul myself out of bed...

Department of Education Orders Academic Institutions to End All Race-Based Programs Within Two Weeks

The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to federally funded educational institutions, including Cornell, ordering the widespread elimination of “racial preferences” and otherwise...