Creating a Welcoming Community

The Department of Entomology is committed to creating an environment where all members of our community can thrive. We recognize that our department is not reflective of the diversity of our society as a whole. We acknowledge that there is work to do to create an environment that is welcoming and supportive for everyone. We are committed to:

Improving access and opportunities for all students, staff and faculty, including those historically excluded from or underrepresented in the academy.
Transforming the culture in the department through education and action (short term and long term).
Engaging our community and listening to everyone’s voices and concerns.
Increasing transparency and communicating with the community, to share what we are doing and why we are doing it.
Improving department climate

Ongoing Initiatives

Addressing Barriers to Access

At all times one member of our faculty works directly with the ACE office at CALS.

Additional resources that our department engages with include:

Training the Next Generation of Leaders

Resources for our Graduate Students:

Jugatae Club
Ombuds Office
Office of Inclusion & Access
Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement -OISE
Inclusive Mentoring -FAIM

Faculty Diversity

All new faculty will have a dedicated mentoring committee and access to resources offered through CALS and also through the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity such as the opportunity to join a Colleague Network Group (CNG) that offers monthly lunches and events targeted to different minorities working at Cornell.

Facility Updates

Facility updates have been made to Comstock Hall to make our community more inclusive. A breast-feeding space has been added to the 4th floor and gender-neutral bathrooms have been created on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th floors.

Four entomology graduate students stand together for a photo at a department coffee break.

Series of books for entomology DEI book series.

Resources

Land acknowledgment

Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.

This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership.