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May 21, 2021 Cornellians will gather June 10-13 to celebrate Virtual Reunion 2021, a weekend of digital events and opportunities to gather online with friends and classmates. Content from last year’s first Virtual Reunion was viewed by more than 10,000 Cornell households from six continents and 77 countries, and from the Class of 1937 to the Class of 2020. This year, alumni from across the globe, spanning multiple decades, are expected to tune in. All events, including featured conversations about racial justice, equity and diversity, will be available for Cornellians to participate in digi...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions by Susan Burch. This event will be real-time captioned. Please join Susan Burch, director of the American Studies Program at Middlebury College, for a talk about her new book,  Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). The book centers on peoples’ lived experiences inside and outside the Canton Asylum, a federal psychiatric institution created specifically to contain American Indians. After the talk, Dan Cobb o...

News by Jennifer Johnson, When Jarin Kobashigawa BA ’20, MBA ’21 first enrolled at Willamette University, he had no idea he’d end the experience with an MBA.  But the abundance of student organizations on campus and a desire to find his community motivated him to get involved, and he took on leadership roles that cleared the path for him to study business and marketing. The 3+2 program was a faster way to become more marketable to employers, and he’s happy with his decision, he said.  “I have absolutely loved it here,” he said.  Learning by doing Kobashig...

Voices & Opinion “We need wholesale reform, not just piecemeal changes” April 20, 2021 Twitter Facebook People in Minneapolis, Minn., celebrate on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images April 20, 2021 Twitter Facebook The verdict came quickly. Barely 24 hours after closing arguments concluded Monday in the trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin...

April 19, 2021 The stark economic realities and inequalities in the United States have been laid bare by the uneven impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some have made great financial gains, but losses have fallen heaviest on those who can least afford them, spotlighting the impact of racism on federal, state and local economic policies and outcomes. In the final webinar of the College of Arts and Sciences’ (A&S) yearlong series, “Racism in America,” panelists will focus on the many ways racism shapes economic policies, and how economic policies shape inequality in America. The April 27, 7 ...