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Lance Heidig, inspiring librarian and curator, dies at 64

April 13, 2021
Lance Heidig, an outreach and instruction librarian at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC), whose passion for discovering and sharing knowledge inspired generations of Cornellians, died April 6 at his home in Ithaca. He was 64.
Heidig’s four decades at Cornell spanned several reference and teaching roles in Uris Library, Olin Library and at RMC; and he was admired by the university community as a welcoming, widely knowledgeable and energetic figure.
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Lance Heidig leading a tour of the “150 Ways to Say Cornell” exhibit that he co-curated in 2014, as part of Cornell s Sesquicentennial celebrations.
“Lance was just constantly on the move,” said Anne Sauer, the Stephen E. and Evalyn Edwards Milman Director of RMC. “He had so much enthusiasm and joy in his work it was infectious for everybody. ....

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Students and faculty urge deeper look at land-grant legacy

Della Keahna Uran
When
High Country News published “Land-Grab universities” last April, the two-year-long investigation shed new light on a dark open secret: One of the largest transfers of land and capital in the country’s history had masqueraded as a donation for university endowments.
HCN identified nearly 11 million acres of land, expropriated from approximately 250 tribes, bands and communities through more than 160 violence-backed treaties and land cessions. Now, in the wake of the investigation, land-grant universities across the country are re-evaluating the capital they built from these stolen Indigenous lands.
More than 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act the legislation that transferred the lands new discussions about the universities’ moral and ethical responsibilities have forced Americans to re-examine the law’s legacy. Land-grant institutions have long prided themselves on their accomplishments as benefici ....

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