From: Andrea Poag Date: January 29, 2023 Subject: Dyson Digest - January 29, 2023
Hi everyone,
It was great to feel the energy back in Warren Hall last week. Thank you to everyone who stopped in to say hello and provide updates about your break.
Key reminders:
Verify your schedule on Student Center (not Canvas)
Being on a waitlist for a course does not mean you are officially in the course even if you have access to the Canvas site.
Attendance and engagement in your courses are vital to your success.
SDS accommodation letters should be provided and discussed with your instructors as soon as you get them.
Course Assistants (formerly TA) double-check your enrollment and the credits.
Good luck this spring.
Andrea Poag Director, Student Services and Advising
WAITLIST UPDATE
If you are on an online waitlist, please be patient as the Registrar's office works through enrollments manually. You will be notified if you are next on the list.
Being on canvas is not being officially enrolled in the course. If you are not officiallyadded to the course by the add deadline, your access will be removed.
SPECIAL STUDIES ENROLLMENT
Beginning today, January 12, 2023, the online application for independent study/undergraduate research/teaching assistant (course assistant) will be available through Experience Cornell. Please look for the following form titles:
Once the application is submitted and fully approved, you will receive a Permission Number by email. You must self-enroll in the course through Student Center(search by the Class Number) – you are not enrolled in the class until it is on your Student Center schedule. Please pay careful attention that you enter the approved number of credits and grade option when enrolling. If enrolling in a special studies course or TA course puts you over your maximum credit limit, you will be required to complete a petition before the enrollment for the special studies enrollment can be processed.
The deadline to enroll in independent study/undergraduate research/teaching assistant is Friday, February 24, 2023.Applications started by Friday, February 24, 2023, will be processed without a petition once they are approved. You will receive emails regarding the application from noreply-cep@cep.cornell.edu.
Petitions to ADD a special studies course will not be accepted after the deadline, NO exceptions even if you have been working the full semester.
Keep in mind you are welcome to meet with any of the Academic Advisors from the Dyson Office of Student Services & Advising.
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY REMINDER
Students are responsible for verifying their course enrollment, graduation requirements, number of course credits, and course sections multiple times throughout the semester. Any questions or concerns should be discussed with an Academic Advisor in the Dyson Office of Student Services & Advising.
EVENT
Black History Month: Tour of the Cornell Hip Hop Collection with Ben Ortiz
Meet at Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (Kroch Library).
The mission of the Cornell Hip Hop Collection (CHHC) is to collect and make accessible the historical artifacts of Hip Hop culture and to ensure their preservation for future generations.
Established in 2007, the CHHC preserves more than 250,000 items across dozens of archives documenting the origins of Hip Hop culture and its spread around the globe. Located in Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, the Hip Hop archives include thousands of sound and video recordings, hundreds of party and event flyers, artwork, photographs, books, magazines, and advertising, along with the archives of Hip Hop’s photographers, filmmakers, dancers, MC’s, DJ’s, artists, journalists, producers and publicists, and independent labels, managers and agencies.
Please join the Dyson Office of Student Services & Advising for a fun evening at Newman Arena as the Cornell Big Red Men's Basketball team take on the Dartmouth Big Green. Wear your red Dyson sweatshirt to receive a FREE popcorn or candy AND a drink (Pepsi products only).
This event is open to the entire Dyson community!
We hope to CU there!
Free Ticket Required https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-hall-black-at-cornell-tickets-518806603517
Town Hall: 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Food and Music: 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Black History Month is a time to assess, ask questions, and come together. Join us for this town hall and community event hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies to kick off Black History Month on campus and discuss the encounter between African Americans and Black people outside the United States.
To be Black is to be part of a community that has multiple identities and nationalities. Our encounters and experiences show historical, political, and cultural solidarities but, at the same time, capture tensions among ways of being Black.
At this event, faculty, staff, and students will gather to ask the questions: What does Blackness here at Cornell mean? Who defines it? What do Black people owe each other? What of each other’s histories do we know and should know? And what should be done?
Stay after the town hall to enjoy time with friends, refreshments, and music by DJ Ishion Hutchinson.
Black History Month: How Black Travel Has Changed Since Jim Crow with Calvin Ramsey
Join Calvin Ramsey, playwright, photographer and author. Calvin was raised in the South and now lives in New York City. He is the author of “Ruth and the Green Book,” a children’s book published in 2010, and the play “The Green Book.” His work was inspired by Victor Hugo Green, who from 1936 to 1964 published the Jim Crow era “Negro Motorist Green Book” (its title was modified over time, eventually abbreviated as the “Green Book”) listing locations catering to African American travelers in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Bermuda.
Hors d'oeuvres will be served for in person participants, Statler Room 198.
Zoom link: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/2362111306?pwd=T016alNKTTkvOUhHUU02eE9Ua1ZkZz09
This year’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration will feature Richard T. Ford, the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford University, engaging the future of racial justice and admissions in higher education. A leading expert on civil rights and antidiscrimination law, Ford will articulate the crucial importance for society and for colleges and universities to advance racial justice and to improve access for historically marginalized communities to higher education. With the prospect that the Supreme Court of the United States may soon end current race-conscious admissions practices, Ford will discuss how current legal notions of diversity have limited affirmative action and new ways universities can advance racial justice and cultivate diverse and inclusive communities after affirmative action.
