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The ILR School is proud to partner with Cornell's David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement in our efforts to enhance and expand the engaged learning opportunities available for ILR students. This school-wide initiative builds on ILR’s long-standing commitment to improving the lives of workers and advancing progressive outcomes for communities, unions and organizations. The cornerstone of this initiative is ILR’s new Office of Engaged and Experiential Programs. The office coordinates an array of engaged and experiential learning and research opportunities, and seeks to create new engaged experiences for ILR students.

ILR Engaged Learning Courses

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Find ILR engaged learning courses and research opportunities by searching the Einhorn Center’s course directory.

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Inaugural High Road Fellowship Cools Down in NYC

Convening one final time to reflect on their High Road experience, the fellows were joined by those who made the pilot NYC fellowship possible - program sponsors, work colleagues, ILR staff, Friday speakers, alumni, and even the city itself. 
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Inaugural High Road Fellowship Cools Down in NYC

Students Debate Free Speech in the Workplace

Cornell Chronicle
The first in a series of three debates supporting Cornell’s Freedom of Expression Theme Year was held on January 31.
Abigel Manaye, A&S ’24 (standing) argues the opposition side of the debate, “Speechless: Should Union Organizers Have Free Speech Rights in the Workplace?,” held Wednesday in Ives Hall. Other participants (sitting, left to right) were ILRies Margot Treadwell ’24, Amalia Schneider ’24, and Ram Orfanel, A&S ’23.
Students Debate Free Speech in the Workplace

ILR students express gratitude for the Miller Shah Labor Internship Award and to Jim Miller '88.

James E. (“Jim”) Miller ‘88, an ILR Alumnus, is the managing partner of his law firm, Miller Shah LLP, Jim was first exposed to the labor movement through members of his family who were part of New York City’s construction and teachers’ unions.
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ILR students express gratitude for the Miller Shah Labor Internship Award and to Jim Miller '88.

David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement

Engaged College Initiative

The ILR School is part of the Engaged College Initiative from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. Through the initiative, the Einhorn Center provides three-year foundational block grants, consultations and training with the ultimate goal of building a long-term collaborative relationship that advances and sustains engaged learning within the school.

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“We share the Einhorn Center’s overarching goal of having all students participate in a community- engaged learning opportunity during their time at Cornell. I believe that through our collaboration with the Einhorn Center, and with the support of this comprehensive grant, we will be able to achieve this ambitious goal by 2025.”

– Kara Lombardi, assistant dean for Student Experience and Wellbeing