Our exceptional ILR outreach faculty are key to the High Road program’s tremendous success, as they will be to its successful expansion statewide. Outreach faculty maintain a robust network of community partners across the state and nationwide, and can place students in high-level internships with those organizations. Through 15 centers and institutes, our scholars collaborate with partners on research, training, education, and practice-oriented initiatives.
An expanded High Road Fellowship program would not only give more students access to this unique educational opportunity, but also provide a sustained and structured framework to contribute to statewide outcomes that are equally valuable for the students and the organizations they would serve.
High Road: NYC
ILR’s New York City offices house a robust group of outreach faculty with deep ties to city and state government and community organizations. No strangers to the advantages of working with undergraduates, our outreach faculty are eager to involve more students in their work through High Road Fellowships.
In 2020, ILR launched the Ithaca Co-lab to increase the school’s focus on serving our local community. As in other small cities and rural communities in New York, workers in Ithaca face a different set of challenges from those in larger urban centers. Working in Ithaca and surrounding communities, students can broaden their understanding of our society while having a direct, measurable impact on a city in which they will spend many of their formative years.
