Jenny Yang, A&S ’92, of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) met with ILR students and faculty March 6 to discuss her career and the role of EEOC in enforcing discrimination laws. Yang was sworn in as a commissioner in 2013 and will end her service this July.
In this story on the ILR website, ILR Associate Professor Kate Griffith’said Yang told the class about recent cases of religious discrimination, race discrimination and the EEOC’s work on the gender pay gap.
“We also heard about the EEOC’s efforts, while Yang was Commission chair, to apply employment discrimination protections to discriminatory behavior based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” Griffith said.
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Semiconductors are at the core of the economy and national security. Their importance makes them a target. Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, discusses how Cornell is helping to keep the semiconductor supply chain safe.
A party in the Temple of Zeus for retiring Zeus manager, Lydia Dutton. Left to right: A.R. Ammons, Cecil Giscombe, Dutton, David Burak, Phyllis Janowitz, James McConkey and Tony Caputi.
