GUEST ROOM | What Does OSCCS Stand For? Not Students, Not Community

GUEST ROOM | Flight or Fight?

In our guest room, Professor Kareem Kassam urges tenured faculty to honor their social contract by standing firm in times of political fear, arguing that academic freedom is not retreat but responsibility to contextualize, to speak for the common good and to guide students toward critical reasoning, imagination and empathy.

GUEST ROOM | From the Inside: eCornell’s Culture of Bias and Burnout

In Opinion's Guest Room, former Cornell employee Cathy L. Pantano, condemns eCornell’s toxic workplace culture of retaliation, burnout, and ignored discrimination claims and urges the University to reconcile its teachings on leadership, HR, and equity with its own practices.

GUEST ROOM | CCAW Response to the President’s Austerity Email

In its response to the administration's June 18 letter anticipating layoffs, Cornell Contingent Academic Workers demands transparency, protections and solidarity from the University.

GUEST ROOM | Cornell Reckoning

Associate Dean Emeritus David N. DeVries critiques Cornell’s austerity measures, arguing that “headcount reductions” obscure administrative mismanagement and disproportionately affect vulnerable workers.

SCHWARZ | On My Mind: Reflections as Fall 2025 Term Begins

Professor Daniel R. Schwarz broaches President Trump's attack on universities, with reflections on antisemitism, Prime Minister Netanyahu's military policies and education in authoritarian regimes.

GUEST ROOM | ILR Is Union Busting: CGSU-UE Graduate Workers Stepped Up and You Can Too

Graduate workers in Cornell’s ILR M.S. program allege union-busting after the abrupt removal of assistantships. In this letter, CGSU-UE calls for continued solidarity to secure full assistantship support for incoming students.

SCHWARZ | U.S. Universities in Crisis: The Implicit and Explicit Threat of Nationalization

Professor Daniel R. Schwarz argues that, by using the threat of withholding research funds and taxing endowments, Trump and his acolytes are trying to nationalize universities.

GUEST ROOM | Neurodiversity in the Trump Era

In a Guest Column, Rebecca McCabe and Sierra Hicks discuss the wording of Autism Acceptance versus Autism Awareness month, amidst larger shifts of treatment of neurodivergent people by the Trump Administration.

GUEST ROOM | The Sound of Silence: On Music, Politics and Belonging at Cornell

In a Guest Column, Catherine Appert, Associate Professor of Music and Sound Studies, responds to the cancellation of Kehlani’s Slope Day performance. She argues that Kehlani’s very existence, their very presence on stage as a Black American, non-binary, lesbian artist whose mixed heritage includes Native American and Filipino roots, is in itself always already political. She questions: Who, in fact, does Kotlikoff’s “unity” ultimately encompass?

GUEST ROOM | The Incredibly Shrinking University

In a Guest Column, Professor David A. Bateman responds to Kehlani's disinvitation from Slope Day. He writes: Unity cannot be imposed by fiat, by arbitrarily deciding that some views must be insulated from exposure to others. Unity, in any case, is not the point of a university; it is the conflicting and contradictory whole to which we aspire, not the false protection of a flattened, squeezed-out discourse.

GUEST ROOM | Cornell Dining and the Campus Community: A Recipe for Successful Food Waste Reduction

This column, written by Anna Ben-Shlomo, a Sustainability Coordinator for Cornell Dining, and Ambarish Lulay, the Executive Chef at Cornell Dining, is especially timely as we approach the end of April, Sustainability Month at Cornell. It’s the perfect moment to reflect on what Cornell is doing — and more importantly, what we all can do — to fight food waste on campus.

GUEST ROOM | Reflections on Les Misérables, Cornell University and the Trump Administration

In a Guest Column, Madeline Rose reflects on the converted connections between Les Misérables, the Trump administration and President Kotlikoff's term.

GUEST ROOM | “Little p” Politics

In a Guest Room Column, Professor Alexandra Dufresne defines "little p" politics — the emotional and interpersonal considerations that drive people’s behavior. How does this impact public policy and political decisions?

GUEST ROOM | A Student's Plea for Grade Transparency

GUEST ROOM | Echoes of the Drum Major for Justice: A Reflection for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2022

HARTE | Unsustainable Science