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Our flexible, interdisciplinary major lets students pursue a wide range of academic interests and careers.

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Study the workplace comprehensively with the world's highest concentration of workplace faculty.

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Invest in your career by learning from instructors who blend world-leading research with business-tested practicality.

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Every ILRie Has a Story

The AFL-CIO/Cornell-ILR Union Leadership Institute prepares labor professionals to advance workers’ rights in New York state.

 

 

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ILR School Events

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Broadband for All? Mapping and Discussing Progress and Remaining Challenges Across NYS

Join Rusty Weaver, Director of Research, ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, and community leaders in broadband accessibility for a virtual presentation of the new Digital Equity Portal and a discussion on what progress has been made since the pandemic and what still needs to happen.
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Broadband for All? Mapping and Discussing Progress and Remaining Challenges Across NYS

2024 Future of Care Work Convening: Forging Connections Across Care

The Worker Institute will host the 2024 Future of Care Work Convening, bringing together advocates, care workers, labor leaders, scholars, and organizers committed to placing care workers' needs and voices at the center of discussions on the future of care work. Building on the energy of the first convening, this year’s speakers, panels, and action sessions will focus on care as a public good, innovative examples of raising standards across care sectors, and building connections across care providers and recipients and paid and unpaid care work.

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2024 Future of Care Work Convening: Forging Connections Across Care

Uniting on the High Road A Conference on Economic Justice at the Local Level

Additional conference dates and times: Friday, June 21, 2024 at 9:00am to 6:30pm Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 9:00am to 12:30pm Bringing together activists and leaders working in local and national movements for racial and economic equality, climate justice, worker rights and power, and a strong democracy. In cities across the United States, everyday people are working to transform our democracy by strengthening their voices in local government, shaping an economy that works for all, and reimagining public safety and health. They are organizing locally to imagine and build a new future where people have good jobs, affordable housing, climate justice, and a real voice in the decisions that affect our lives. Join us in Buffalo for Uniting on the High Road, June 20-22, 2024, a conference bringing together leaders, advocates, researchers, and organizers from these broad movements for racial and economic justice and authentic democracy. The conference will include speakers from local and national organizations like PowerSwitch Action, Good Jobs First, ALIGN, Demos, Bargaining for the Common Good, Grassroots Collaborative of Chicago, New Yorkers United for Child Care, and local unions, universities, and partners in government. Come and take part in interactive workshops, field experiences in Buffalo neighborhoods, art performances, and collective artmaking as we learn from each other and imagine future collaboration within and across cities. The cost for this conference is $275.

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Uniting on the High Road A Conference on Economic Justice at the Local Level

Future of Work Fellowships

The ILR Future of Work fellowship program supports postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students who work with our world-leading faculty on innovative and impactful research projects.

This fellowship program is designed to promote the benefits of strong collaboration between newer researchers and resident faculty members in studying impactful topics related to the future of work. Fellows and their faculty sponsors alike are enabled to address challenging research questions and break out of any stereotypes or default thinking around the future of work.

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“My time at the ILR School helped me understand both labor and management perspectives, which has proven to be a solid foundation for my career.”
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Faculty Spotlight

Get to know Andrew Wolf, an assistant professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work.

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Catherwood Library

The Martin P. Catherwood Library is the most comprehensive resource on labor and employment in North America, offering expert research support through reference services, instruction, online guides and access to premier collections.

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ILR in the News

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Missing Identity Options on Forms Can Prompt Anger, Reduce Belonging

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Being asked to provide demographic information in official forms such as job applications – but finding one’s own identity group missing from demographic options provided – can signal a low likelihood of belonging in a given setting and trigger anger, according to new Cornell research. 
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Missing Identity Options on Forms Can Prompt Anger, Reduce Belonging

Four Faculty Receive 2024 Carpenter Advising Awards

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Associate Professor Emily Zitek is one of four Cornell faculty members to receive the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, which recognizes sustained and distinguished contributions of faculty members to advising undergraduates.
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Four Faculty Receive 2024 Carpenter Advising Awards

Global Strike Report Covers Six Countries

The Labor Action Tracker, a collaboration between the ILR School and the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations, is a co-sponsor of an international strike analysis.
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Global Strike Report Covers Six Countries

Freedom of Expression Debates Reflect Civil Discourse

Four events and several contentious issues later, the series modeled meaningful exchange, says Senior Associate Dean Ariel Avgar.
Daniel Obaseki argues to affirm freedom of speech at the finale of a four-debate sequence led by the ILR School this semester as part of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression Theme Year.
Freedom of Expression Debates Reflect Civil Discourse

Campus Life

A view of student life at Cornell University's ILR School in Ithaca, NY.

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Happy Last Day of Classes, everyone! Cheers to a wonderful semester! #cornell #ILR #cornellilr

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Happy Friday, ILRies!! ☀️ #ilrschool #cornell

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Meet Ben, one of our ILR seniors! 🐻 #cornelluniversity #cornellilr #ilrschool #cornell2024

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Join us on Tuesday, May 7th at 4pm in the Golden Courtyard for the reveal of the new ILR graduation flag! Ice cream will be served and Dean Colvin say a few words before the unveiling of the flag. You can also meet the students who designed the flag! The new flag will symbolize the ILR School at…

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We hope you choose ILR! #CornellILR #ILRschool #Cornell2028

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Here’s a blast from the past with some ILR events. The first set of pictures is from the ILR Groat and Alpern event, and the second set is from the ILR Labor and Advocacy Career Fair. Both of these events are hosted annually by ILR. #ilr #cornellilr #ilrschool #ilrbaddies #cornell

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