The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement has released a new video series highlighting a decade of progress and impact in community-engaged learning across the university. The series demonstrates Cornell’s longstanding commitment to integrating scholarship with public purpose through partnerships that generate meaningful educational outcomes and tangible benefits for communities.
The opening video, Community-Engaged Learning at Cornell: Purposeful, Ubiquitous, Celebrated, features perspectives from university leadership, students and community collaborators. Together, they reflect on 10 years of growth and achievement in embedding community-engaged learning across disciplines in curricular and co-curricular spaces, underscoring its central role in advancing Cornell’s mission to foster scholarship in service to the public good.
Cornell Student Athletes for Sustainability at Finger Lakes ReUse
Subsequent videos highlight the breadth and diversity of Cornell’s partnerships. In Cornell Athletics and Finger Lakes ReUse: Partners for a More Sustainable Community, a student-athlete organization collaborates with a local nonprofit to promote sustainability and responsible consumption. Students in the SC Johnson College of Business, through Partnering with AstraZeneca to Make Clinical Trials More Inclusive, analyze barriers to participation in medical research among underrepresented populations.
PRYDE Scholars work with students at New Roots School
Engineering students, featured in Using Robotics to Transform the Future of Agriculture, apply robotics technology to develop innovative, sustainable farming practices. The College of Human Ecology’s Asking Big Questions, Building Brighter Futures: PRYDE at New Roots showcases undergraduates mentoring local high school students in social science research. And, in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Learning Through the Lens, students and community members co-create documentaries portraying life in Ithaca and surrounding areas.
Collectively, the series celebrates a decade of community-engaged learning at Cornell — demonstrating how purposeful partnerships continue to prepare students to lead with insight, empathy and a lasting commitment to the public good.
Three of the videos were shown in October during the “Engaged Cornell: Transforming Higher Education for the 21st Century” presentation at the 2025 Cornell Trustee-Council Annual Meeting.
