Faculty Resources
Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Cornell Certificate Program
In this six-course certificate program, you will hear from Cornell leadership about the importance of evolving a culture of diversity, equity, and belonging.
Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures
The Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures (CRJEF)'s core commitments are: supporting and amplifying the research and knowledge of faculty and students, creating space for imagining futures where everyone can thrive, and working in community to inspire action that confronts and transcends racial injustice.
Center for Teaching Innovation
The Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation offers ideas and strategies on how to create and sustain inclusive classrooms.
Center for Transformative Action
The Center for Transformative Action (CTA) helps create communities that are socially just, ecologically sound, and work for everyone. We do this through our educational programs, and by supporting system-changing projects with incubator and fiscal sponsorship services. Our projects work to transform the structures, as well as the habits of mind, that produce inequities in our communities, country, and the world. Through their innovative methods, as well as their successes and challenges, they show us what is possible. CTA is an educational non-profit organization affiliated with Cornell University.
Colleague Network Groups (CNGs)
Colleague Network Groups (CNGs) provide an opportunity for employees with shared interests, identities, or life experiences to connect and to build relationships. There are six CNGs at Cornell: Disability, LGBTQ+, Men of Color, Veterans, Women of Color, and Young Professionals. Membership is open to all Cornell employees. You can join multiple CNGs.
Cornell LGBTQ Resource Guide
The guide offers suggestions for best practices for classroom and colleague engagement, from using a gender-inclusive greeting for all students on the first day to creating LGBTQ+ inclusive and affirming curricula. The guide also offers resources to share with students and to help our LGBTQ+ faculty and staff navigate benefits and Human Resource policies.
Cornell Library Human Sexuality Collection
The Human Sexuality Collection seeks to preserve and make accessible primary sources that document historical shifts in the social construction of sexuality, with a focus on U.S. lesbian and gay history and the politics of pornography.
Diversity Consortium of Tompkins County
Cornell University is an active member of the Ithaca and Tompkins County communities. The Diversity Consortium of Tompkins County works collectively to address diversity issues; one of their programs is a biannual county-wide diversity roundtable. Cornell's campuses in New York City and Doha, Qatar, are similarly engaged with their respective local communities.
Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring (FAIM)
The FAIM Resource Center supports faculty and their mentees in their development and advancement of mentee-centered and strengths-based mentoring practices within graduate education and the professoriate.
Faculty and Staff Assistance Program
The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program provides confidential counseling and consultation services to Cornell Employees. Visit their website to make an appointment.
Gender Inclusive Pronouns
Using someone’s correct pronouns is an important way of affirming someone’s identity and is a fundamental step in being an ally. This overview of pronouns and inclusive language is by no means an exhaustive guide but meant to provide some guidance.
Greater Ithaca Activities Center
The Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) is a center for all ages, particularly youth and teens. It serves the immediate neighborhood and the greater Ithaca area by providing multicultural, educational, and recreational programs focused on social and individual development.
Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Program (MIPP)
The Cornell University Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Program (MIPP) provides ergonomics services to faculty and staff with the goals of enhancing health and performance, reducing work-related injuries, and improving workspace design.
NCFDD
Provides online tools to support the success of tenured and tenure-track faculty, postdocs and advanced graduate students.
Office of Faculty Development and Diversity
The Provost’s Office of Faculty Development & Diversity (OFDD) provides a range of resources, including training and support for deans, department chairs, and individual faculty members, in the areas of faculty development and diversity.
Office of Global Learning
International Services Office of Global Learning is available to help students and scholars from around the world thrive at Cornell.
Religious Accommodations
The university is committed to making every reasonable effort to accommodate the religious observances of our students, faculty and staff.
Restroom & Facilities Use Guidelines
The primary purpose of gender-inclusive bathrooms is to create a restroom space where everyone feels welcome and safe, regardless of their gender identity or expression. They are also designed to be accessible to people with disabilities, and those who may need assistance from a caregiver of a different gender.
Teaching and Learning in a Diverse Classroom
Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom is a four-week, self-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise.
The Community Response Team
Cornell's Community Response Team (CRT) is a person-centered, trauma-informed mobile crisis care program serving persons in crisis on Cornell’s Ithaca campus and overseen by the Division of Public Safety.