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Our flexible, interdisciplinary major lets students pursue a wide range of academic interests and careers.

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Graduate Programs

Study the workplace comprehensively with the world's highest concentration of workplace faculty.

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Professional Education

Invest in your career by learning from instructors who blend world-leading research with business-tested practicality.

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Every ILRie Has a Story

Scott Buchheit, M.S. ’77, packed a lot of living into his ILR days, including a stint as a union laborer in Florida, a four-month motorcycle trip across America, and time in the Adirondacks helping the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy and New York state reach an agreement in an historic land dispute.

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ILR School Events

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Black Labor Organizing Matters

UNION DAYS 2025 Join us for this timely discussion on the power and impact of Black workers in the labor movement. The event begins at 4:30 p.m. in 115 Ives. Our featured speaker is: Michael Green, professor, Texas A&M University School of Law To see all Union Days events, click here.

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Black Labor Organizing Matters

Federal Jobs Data Unlocked

The uses, processes, and critical infrastructure that underpin the US economy.

Federal employment data guides individuals, employers, policymakers and markets by shedding light on how individual actors shape larger trends in areas such as job growth, unemployment, and wages. Join us for a webinar on the importance of federal employment data, its impacts on the economy, what happens when it is undermined or unavailable and how others are helping support access to important data.
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Federal Jobs Data Unlocked

The Empty Chair: Inside the Fight to Unionize Starbucks

UNION DAYS 2025 Please join us for a documentary screening, followed by Starbucks Workers United panel discussion. The Empty Chair follows the journey of Starbucks worker-organizers as they seek to unionize in the face of repression and hostility from the global coffee giant. Join us at 6 p.m. downtown Ithaca at the Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street. To see all Union Days events, click here.

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The Empty Chair: Inside the Fight to Unionize Starbucks

Yang-Tan Institute: Enhancing equal opportunities for all people with disabilities

The Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability contributes to the development of organizations and communities that welcome the skills and talents of people with disabilities in New York state, the U.S. and abroad. 

YTI informs public policy in many ways, including providing public access to disability data in specific geographic areas.

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“My time at the ILR School helped me understand both labor and management perspectives, which has proven to be a solid foundation for my career.”
– Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Major League Baseball

Get To Know: Forrest Briscoe

Faculty Spotlight

Forrest Briscoe, who joined the ILR faculty in the fall of 2024, is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor in Industrial and Labor Relations. He teaches and researches organization theory and strategic management.

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Catherwood Library

The Martin P. Catherwood Library is the most comprehensive resource on labor and employment in North America, offering expert research support through reference services, instruction, online guides and access to premier collections.

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ILR in the News

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New GLI Toolkit Provides Framework on Climate Risk Resilience and Adaptation

The ILR School’s Global Labor Institute (GLI), in collaboration with Schroders – a global investment management company – has published the first-ever climate adaptation guidance for investor engagement with firms.
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New GLI Toolkit Provides Framework on Climate Risk Resilience and Adaptation

Pambianchi ’90 Offers Insight on Obtaining Success in Hatfield Lecture

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In a conversation with Cornell President Michael I. Kotlikoff, Christy Pambianchi '90, reflected on her more than 30 years of experience as a human resources officer as Cornell’s 42nd Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education.
Sreang Hok/Cornell University Christy Pambianchi ’90 delivers the Hatfield Lecture in Ives Hall. Photo courtesy of Sreang Hok/Cornell University.
Pambianchi ’90 Offers Insight on Obtaining Success in Hatfield Lecture

Group Offers Skills, and Friendship, to Local Students with Disabilities

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ILRie Kathryn Erich ’26 is an active member of the TST-BOCES Career Skills Club and serves as the group's public relations chair.
TST-BOCES student Isa Santos (left) works with her teacher Helen Staller (center) and Kathryn Erich '26 (right), public relations chair for the TST-BOCES Career Skills Club. Photo courtesy of Sreang Hok/Cornell University.
Group Offers Skills, and Friendship, to Local Students with Disabilities

Kheel Center Honors Student Archival Research

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Celine Chauviere’s paper “Rosie the Riveter’s Untold Story: African American Women’s Intersectional Struggle” earned her the 2024 Kheel Center Award for Undergraduate Research, which celebrates outstanding scholarship using the center’s archives.
Celine Chauviere ’25 (second from right) receives the Kheel Undergraduate Research Award from librarians and curators (left to right) Haven Hawley, Jim DelRosso, and Steven Calco at an April 9 awarding event.
Kheel Center Honors Student Archival Research

Campus Life

A view of student life at Cornell University's ILR School in Ithaca, NY.

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The ILR Vietnam Engaged Learning Program is one of 26 global and domestic opportunities offered through the ILR Office of Engaged and Experiential Programs (OEEP). 🗺️ This winter break program takes students to Vietnam to explore global labor relations while building key skills in intercultural…

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Sometimes, spring snow happens 🙂‍↕️🌸❄️

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There's so much to explore in the Ithaca area! Have you ever been to any of these spots?

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Enjoying these early days of spring. 🌼🌷🌸

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Meet ILR School student Katie DeRose, Class of 2026! 👋 A high school project on the 1978 Bridgeport teachers’ strike sparked her interest in workers, organized labor and the future of work. When she learned about the ILR School at Cornell, she felt she would be a good fit. With help from Cornell…

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Meet Bentley, one of our ILR Ambassadors! Swipe to read more about Bentley’s summer internship experience! 🐻

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