Undergraduate Student 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.
Biology Scholars Program (BSP)
Designed to support academic excellence and provide career preparation for students majoring in Biological Sciences, with a focus on first-generation college students.
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.
Collegiate Science & Technology Entry program (C-STEP)
Provides academic enrichment and research experience in STEM content areas
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. 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.
First Generation & Low Income Support
First-Generation & Low-Income (FGLI) Student Support promotes awareness, identity exploration, community engagement, and self-advocacy for students who identify with the first-generation and/or low-income student experience.
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.
Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
Summer research experiences for undergraduates in Engineering.
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF)
Program to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning.
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.
Office of Spirituality and Meaning-Making
The Office of Spirituality and Meaning-Making (OSMM) supports Cornell students of all religious and nonreligious identities, ethical backgrounds, and worldviews.
On-Campus Health Services
Cornell Health provides services for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students studying on Cornell's Ithaca campus, or on the nearby Geneva campus.
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.