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Cornell is a private, Ivy League university and the land-grant university for New York state. Cornell’s mission is to discover, preserve and disseminate knowledge, to educate the next generation of global citizens, and to promote a culture of broad inquiry throughout and beyond the Cornell community. Cornell also aims, through public service, to enhance the lives and livelihoods of students, the people of New York and others around the world.
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Location: Ithaca, NY
Website: cornell.edu
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Number of Students: 25,582
Student to Faculty Ratio: 9:1
Percentage of Students Who Identify As Native: 2%
Percentage of Staff Who Identify As Native: .3%
Graduation Rate For Native Students: 85%
Admission Requirements
Common Application, the school report, official transcript, counselor recommendation, two teacher recommendations, midyear report, Cornell questions and writing supplement, application fee or waiver, additional submissions for some majors (i.e., architecture, art). SAT/ACT requirements have been waived for 2023 and 2024 applicants.
Native Financial Aid Opportunities Offered by the School
None
Diploma
Certificate ✓
Associate's
Bachelor's ✓
Master's ✓
Doctorate ✓
On-Campus Native Specific Housing ✓
On-Campus Family Housing ✓
On-Campus Sober Housing ✓
On-Campus Childcare ✓
Support Person For Native Students ✓
Elder-In-Residence
Native American Tuition Waiver
Native Greek Organizations
Arts & Entertainment Degrees
Architecture
Fashion Design and Management
Fiber Science and Apparel Design
Fine Arts
History of Art
Landscape Architecture
Music
Performing and Media Arts
Native Degrees
American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Native Language(s) Taught
Cayuga
Native Classes
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Speaker Series
Analyzing White Springs
Archaeology of Colonialism and Cultural Entanglement
Archaeology of North American Indians
Black and Indigenous Histories
Cayuga Language and Culture I
Cayuga Language and Culture II
Contemporary Native American Fiction
Critical Approaches to American Indian and Indigenous Studies: Intellectual History
Culture, Politics, and Environment in the Circumpolar North
Everything You Know about Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History
Federal Indian Law
Federal Indian Law Practicum I
Federal Indian Law Practicum II
Finger Lakes and Beyond: Archaeology of the Native Northeast
Haudenosaunee-New York State Relations
Independent Study in American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Ingenuities as Living Networks
Indigenous Issues in Global Perspectives
Indigenous North America
Indigenous Peoples and Decolonial Philosophies
Indigenous Representation in Still and Motion Photography
Indigenous Spaces and Materiality
Introduction to Native American Literature
The Invention of the Americas, 1450-1850
Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances
Native American Languages
Native American Poetry of Resistance
Native American Psychology
Native Politics and the Nation-to-Nation Relationship
Nature/Culture: Ethnographic Approaches to Human-Environment Relations
New World Encounters, 1500-1800
Seminar in Iroquois History
Thinking from a Different Place: Indigenous Philosophies
Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge
What Is a Settler Text?
Native Supports Offered
Akwe:kon – the Indigenous Residential Program House
Native Student Organizations
American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Indigenous Graduate Student Association
Native American/Indigenous Mentorship Program
Native American and Indigenous Students at Cornell
Native American Law Students Association
Ongwe Hall Council at Akwe:kon
Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science
Native Events
Akwe:kon Community Dinners
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program Faculty Fellows Dinners
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program Leadership Development Spotlight
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program Speaker Series
Annual Awards & Recognition Dinner
Graduation Picnic
Late Night Breakfast during Study Week
Welcome Back Picnic
Native Preparation Programs
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program Dinners and Ganondagan Trip during the Prefreshman Summer Program
Native High School Programming
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program Promising Futures recruitment event
Native American scholarships for Precollege Studies during the summer
How Is The School Involved With The Local Native Community?
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program consults with the traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (Cayuga) leadership on various topics including land acknowledgment and ways students and faculty can support them. Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ community members are invited to participate in AIISP events. Cornell students also tutor Onondaga Nation students at LaFayette High School.
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