Fifty-eight Cornellians joined the Peace Corps in 2011, more than any other Ivy League university, according to Jim Haldeman, senior associate director of Cornell’s international programs, which includes the University’s Peace Corps program.

Jan. 5, 2010

As the economic downturn has forced some colleges to cut jobs, Cornell has used these tough times to concentrate its recruiting agenda. The Dual Career Program, a service created eight years ago in Cornell’s Recruitment and Employment Center, has proved a key recruitment tool, offering job-search assistance and career counseling to the spouses and partners of University employees.

Sally Dear, an adjunct lecturer at Binghamton University had had enough. Three of her students — each a varsity athlete on the men’s basketball team — were consistently disrupting her class. They sent text messages that they claimed were to their coach, they left early, arrived late or simply did not show up at all. Dear, who had taught at Binghamton for 11 years, went public with her frustration with the school's athletic department. Then, two weeks ago, she was fired.

As the spring semester at Cornell begins, annual recruitment week has come to a close. The rush class this year was comprised of a record number of freshmen, sophomores and transfers including 719 potential fraternity members. New members received bids to the Panhellenic Association’s 11 chapters and the Interfraternity Council’s 41 chapters.

The recruitment process was very different for boys and girls. The potential sorority members spent their days meeting sisters in each house and taking house tours.Behind the eight ball: Doug Kuts ’09 plays pool at a fraternity’s rush event on Wednesday