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Universities’ Role in Society Goes Beyond Education, Research

Cornell Chronicle
Americans broadly agree that universities should engage in a range of societal issues beyond their core education and research missions – while avoiding political activism, new economics research finds.
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Universities’ Role in Society Goes Beyond Education, Research

Randi Weingarten ’80 Book Talk Slated for NYC Office

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten ’80 will discuss her new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy,” on Monday, November 17 at ILR’s New York City Conference Center at 570 Lexington Avenue.
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Randi Weingarten ’80 Book Talk Slated for NYC Office

Konvitz Lecturer Calls for ‘Curious, Teeming and Occasionally Noisy Pluralism’

Cornell Chronicle
Constitutional scholar Cass R. Sunstein, delivered the annual Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture on Oct. 30. The lecture, “Free Speech on Campus,” took place at Myron Taylor Hall.
Cass Sunstein delivers the annual Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture on Oct. 30. Photo: Rachel Philipson for Cornell University
Konvitz Lecturer Calls for ‘Curious, Teeming and Occasionally Noisy Pluralism’

Ignoring Status ‘A Major Mistake,’ Says Cook-Gray Lecturer

Stanford University’s Cecilia L. Ridgeway M.S. ’69, Ph.D. ’72 explains how understanding status can help to create a more egalitarian society.
Stanford University’s Cecilia L. Ridgeway M.S. ’69, Ph.D. ’72 delivers the 2025 Cook-Gray Lecture
Ignoring Status ‘A Major Mistake,’ Says Cook-Gray Lecturer

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Universities’ Role in Society Goes Beyond Education, Research

Cornell Chronicle
Americans broadly agree that universities should engage in a range of societal issues beyond their core education and research missions – while avoiding political activism, new economics research finds.
Students walk towards the Ives courtyard at the ILR School. Photo: Noël Heaney (UREL)
Universities’ Role in Society Goes Beyond Education, Research

New Interactive Map Highlights How Federal Funding Impacts NY State

Cornell Chronicle
Russell Weaver, the co-lab’s director of research, introduced the “NYS Federal Impact Interactive Map,” to help New Yorkers track the impact of sweeping economic policy changes enacted since January by the Trump administration.
A screenshot from a new interactive map that highlights how federal funding cuts are impacting NY state.
New Interactive Map Highlights How Federal Funding Impacts NY State

Book Examines Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace

Cornell Chronicle
A new book co-authored by Kati L. Griffith, Shannon Gleeson and Patricia Campos-Medina argues that reforming labor and employment law, immigration law and civil rights law is necessary to reshape the low-wage workplace.
“Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace” book cover.
Book Examines Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace

Essay Examines Why Boliva’s Most Popular Party Isn’t on the Oct. 19 Ballot

An ILR professor compresses decades of history into a short essay that analyzes the rise and fall of Bolivia’s MAS party.
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Essay Examines Why Boliva’s Most Popular Party Isn’t on the Oct. 19 Ballot

Five-Part eCornell Series Focuses on HR Business Partners

A new, comprehensive model developed by CAHRS to assist HR professionals will be explored during a free, five-part eCornell webcast series beginning October 16.
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Five-Part eCornell Series Focuses on HR Business Partners

Models Feel Hemmed in by AI

Cornell Chronicle
Using generative AI, fashion designers can use digital photos to adjust models’ features and even deploy fully digital avatars in place of humans. A team including an ILR School researcher has written a paper highlighting models’ challenges.
Zoe West speaks at an even during Fashion Week. Photo Credit: Jaka Vinsek and Briana Elledge
Models Feel Hemmed in by AI

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Wall St reacts to Musk’s $1 trillion pay plan approval by Tesla investors

Reuters
Brian Dunn, director of professional programs at ILR’s Institute for Compensation Studies, comments on yesterday’s approval by Tesla shareholders of a proposal about future compensation to Elon Musk.
Wall St reacts to Musk’s $1 trillion pay plan approval by Tesla investors

US employment report will not be published again as government shutdown drags on

Reuters
Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, comments on the likelihood of certain government reports ever being published, given the lack of data collected during the current government shutdown.
US employment report will not be published again as government shutdown drags on

Why unions are becoming a problem for self-driving cars

Axios
Art Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies, provides context on why unions may object to driverless vehicles.
Why unions are becoming a problem for self-driving cars

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Shutdown impacts on air traffic controllers ‘recipe for disaster’

Nov. 3, 2025

“Doing that job without pay is playing with fire ... It is a recipe for disaster to continue adding pressure to an already problematic and excruciating job.” 

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Oct. 10, 2025

“Freezing the maximum benefit level for six years made New York one of the least generous states, taking into account cost of living. Now our benefits levels are roughly in line with other states in the Northeast.”

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