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Olympics · IthacaCornell Reunion drew 7,000 alumni and friends back to Ithaca on June 5 through 8, 2025. A highlight of the weekend was President Kotlikoff’s first State of the University Address that had Bailey Hall about 80% full. He said: “There’s a deeply distorted image out there of the Ivy League university—a caricature that’s become its own dogma. It’s a place where the thinking is liberal and woke, but where antisemitism gets a pass. A place where protes…Read Article
President Launches “Cornell Matters” to Alumni at Reunion – The Cornell Review
Ithaca, New York · IthacaThe Cornell Graduate Students United – United Electrical (CGSU-UE) is undertaking its first membership drive and transition to mandatory dues payments. These dues payments are collected by Cornell as payroll deductions, meaning the amount of the dues is deducted from grad students’ paychecks. Two issues block this effort: CGSU-UE is fighting over how the religious exemption to dues collection should be implemented and a student is challenging wh…Read Article
Student Challenges Grad Students as “Employees” – The Cornell Review
Ken Paxton · AmarilloImage from cornell.edu On June 4, a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, issued an injunction against the State of Texas charging in-state tuition for undocumented students at Texas public colleges. Previously, Texas adopted a law allowing undocumented students to pay the lower in-state tuition. However, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of that law, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined that ch…Read Article
