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Student, staff, faculty diversity honored with OADI awards

5/11/2017 by : Robert Johnson , Cornell Chronicle

As a first-generation college graduate and a woman of color, Cornell trustee Laura Wilkinson, J.D. ’85, MBA ’86 – former deputy assistant director of the Federal Trade Commission, now an antitrust lawyer and partner in private practice – had little difficulty writing her keynote speech for the fourth annual Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ (OADI) Honors Awards Ceremony May 5.

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Mellon president proposes humanities tackle slavery

4/18/2017 by : Robert Johnson , Cornell Chronicle

“When the world turns to the normally bodacious problems we call ‘grave challenges,’ shouldn’t the perspectives of humanists and artists be included to enhance what is known and how it is known?”

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Scholar describes pitfalls minorities face in academia

12/14/2015 by : Robert Johnson , Cornell Chronicle

For scholars from underrepresented minority groups, the concept of selection in academia and professional education is inseparable from historic and contemporary realities of exclusion and marginalization.

Explaining the complexities of this selection was the main theme of the Fall Diversity in Scholarship and Engagement Symposium keynote speech, delivered by sociologist Steven E. Alvarado, Dec. 7 in Warren Hall.