Staff 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 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.
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.
Department of Inclusion and Belonging
The Department of Inclusion and Belonging offers a comprehensive range of services designed to support individual growth, enhance departmental inclusivity, and advance campus-wide initiatives to improve equity, inclusion, and belonging among staff.
Disability Colleague Network Group
The Cornell University Disability Colleague Network Group is a university-sponsored employee resource group with a mission is to raise awareness, serve as an educational resource, provide support, and offer peer mentorship for those working with short-term or long-term disabilities - their supervisors, colleagues, allies, and other supporters.
Diversity Consortium of Tompkins County
Cornell University is an active member of the Ithaca and Tompkins County communities. Diversity and inclusion are important to the university, the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, and other area municipalities. 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 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.
LGBTQ Colleague Network Group
The mission of the Cornell University LGBTQ Colleague Network Group is to raise awareness about workplace issues faced by LGBTQIA faculty and staff; provide networking opportunities for LGBTQIA faculty and staff and a forum to discuss topics of mutual interest and innovative solutions with senior leaders; and to support the recruitment and retention of LGBTQIA faculty and staff.
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.
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.
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.
Transgender Resources for Employees
Resources to support transgender and transitioning employees.