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In the season finale of the Inclusive Excellence Podcast, Erin Sember-Chase and Toral Patel are joined by Cal Walker, a retiree of Cornell and longstanding citizen of Ithaca for nearly 50 years. Walker shares his journey from Civil Rights-era Alabama to New York, arriving in Ithaca in 1977 and wasting no time to make a difference in the community.
Proposed levy increase reduced from $12 million to $8 million.
To highlight how local partnerships improve Cornell, Ithaca and Tompkins County, the university presented the Cornell Town-Gown Awards – known as the TOGOs – to three student-community collaborations.The 13th annual TOGOs were awarded Nov. 4 at Ithac
Nonprofit universities often pay the towns that host them in lieu of property tax. Students say selective institutions with big endowments should do more. Two Ivy League universities recently renewed agreements to voluntarily pay their surrounding cities sizable sums to help compensate for the fact that, as nonprofits, they don’t pay property taxes. And while some community members see the payments as generous and beneficial, students are among their harshest critics, arguing that the wealthy universities are capable of paying their host cities much more.
It’s easy to get lost in the weeds about the Cornell-City agreement but it’s important to acknowledge that property taxes are how we fund critical community services like roads, sidewalks,