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On Oct. 13, President Martha Pollack delivered her second State of the University Address this year at the 72nd Trustee-Council Annual Meeting in Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall. In the speech, which highlighted expansions across the University’s three campuses, Pollack reiterated the importance of the University’s To Do The Greatest Good fundraising campaign, which aims […]

Basic Needs Coalition and community members are set on continuing basic needs advocacy and community work on campus, despite slow progress in negotiations for a Basic Needs Center at Cornell.

Recent changes in staffing and structure have allowed Cornell’s Financial Aid Office to fix many of last year’s delays. Despite this, activists are pushing for more direct assistance to students.

A new organization on campus seeks to bring awareness and combat a little-known issue affecting the community: period poverty.

Every semester, Cornell students take out loans to pay University tuition and fees, which have continually risen over the past several years. Total estimated cost of attendance this academic year was $83,296 for endowed colleges, and $62,798 for state contract colleges.As of Aug. 24, a program announced by the Biden administration may help defray some […]