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Academic Priorities and Initiatives
Undergraduate Financial Aid Initiative
Building on a long history of need-blind admissions and need-based aid, a sweeping new financial aid initiative, starting in 2008-09, will eliminate need-based loans for all undergraduate students from families with income under $75,000, making it possible for new students to graduate debt-free. Learn more...
ACCEL: The ADVANCE Program at Cornell University
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) ADVANCE program's stated goals are "to increase the recruitment, retention, and promotion into leadership positions of women in engineering and the sciences, and to institutionalize best practices, policies and programs across colleges as they pertain to women faculty."
This award will directly involve and have maximum impact on the areas supported by the NSF: engineering, physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences. However, because many of the initiatives are indeed institutional, they will impact the university as a whole. Over the five year life of the ADVANCE grant, we aim to achieve 20% women faculty in each Science and engineering (S&E) department. Our longer-term objective is that a third of our S&E faculty be women by 2015, Cornell's sesquicentennial.
New Life Sciences Initiative
Cornell's New Life Sciences Initiative (NLSI) is a university-wide collaboration to develop and launch a multiyear $600-million campaign that will enhance and support life sciences research and education at Cornell and elsewhere. It is the most far-reaching research initiative in Cornell's history.
Announcement of Initiatives in the Social Sciences at Cornell (PDF)
A series of initiatives in the social sciences at Cornell are described in this document, including the formation of Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences.