The new professorship will allow the ILR School to recruit and retain top faculty talent in areas of labor relations including collective bargaining, labor law, labor history and dispute resolution.
Climate change, sexual harassment, dangers for delivery workers and expungement of criminal records are among the workplace issues that trouble New Yorkers, according to a new report by Cornell labor and workplace experts.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations recently announced changes to its curriculum after more than 30 years, including a new introductory course, more options for data science and statistics classes and an upper-year writing requirement. The new changes will be implemented starting in the fall of 2022, introducing a variety of new graduation requirements that incoming freshmen will have to complete.
According to Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, ILR’s Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean and Martin F. Scheinman ’75, M.S. ’76 Professor, industrial and labor relations, the last major review of the ILR curriculum was conducted in 2006 and did not lead to any major changes. In 2017, former Dean Kevin Hallock gathered an ILR Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee chaired by Colvin to conduct an extensive review of the curriculum.
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