civic engagement
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Relay For Life set for March 28
Cornell College’s 13th annual Relay for Life will take place from 3 p.m. March 28 through 3 a.m. March 29 at the Small MultiSport Center.
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Alternative Spring Break 2015
See the social media posts from the students who went on this year’s Alternative Spring Break trips.
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More than 100 students performing service over spring break
More than 100 students, or about 10 percent of the Cornell College student body, will be going on service trips in March as part of the college’s 11th annual Alternative Spring Break.
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Cornell College honored for service
Cornell College has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which recognizes schools that offer the best community service programs in the nation.
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Students performing service over winter break
Fourteen Cornell College students will be spending part of their winter break performing community service in Xela, Guatemala. The trip marks the first time students are participating in an international service trip over winter break.
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Cornell College ASB 3rd nationally
Cornell College’s Alternative Spring Break program is the third most active in the nation, according to Break Away, the organization that puts on Alternative Spring Break.
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Fields honored for engagement
Jacob Fields ’14 won the Student Leadership Award from the Iowa Campus Compact for his work with education and cancer research fundraising.
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DeLarm learns to be an advocate for change
Skating, sisterhood, and sociology all helped Chelsea DeLarm find her identity as an advocate of change and led her to become a case manager at the Catherine McAuley Center.
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Fields passionate about teaching and service
Jacob Fields will address educational inequality head-on by teaching at an elementary school in Brooklyn as part of Teach For America.
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KCRG features student raising money for cancer research
Jacob Fields can’t stop running, at least not until he’s made his goal of raising $1,000 for cancer research by running 1,000 miles. The Cornell College senior was featured on KCRG-TV9 in Cedar Rapids for his dedication.
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Relay for Life set for April 26
Cornell College’s annual Relay for Life will run from noon on Saturday, April 26 to midnight on Sunday, April 27 at Ash Park.
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A look at Alternative Spring Break 2014
More than 100 students spent Cornell College’s Spring Break serving others. They worked on urban farms, helped to rehabilitate animals, learned about activism, helped to mitigate poverty, and more.
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Record number of students participating in Alternative Spring Break
A record number of Cornell College students, more than 120 in all, will spend a week performing community service during the college’s spring break as part of the Alternative Spring Break program.
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Alumnus optimistic after Iran agreement
Derek Johnson ’04, executive director at Global Zero, published an editorial in the Huffington Post where he expresses optimism that the recent nuclear deal with Iran could mean real progress toward global nuclear disarmament.
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Peacemaking After Deadly Conflict
David Zarembka will be presenting Peacemaking After Deadly Conflict at Zamora’s Market Friday, Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. He has 49 years of involvement in the Great Lakes region as he first worked in the area in 1964 when he taught Rwandan refugees in now Tanzania. Since 1998, he has been the coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative of the Friends Peace Teams, a Quaker organization that promotes peacemaking activities with local groups in the region.
More than 100 students performing service over spring break 
Fields honored for engagement 
DeLarm learns to be an advocate for change 
KCRG features student raising money for cancer research 
Relay for Life set for April 26 
A look at Alternative Spring Break 2014 
Record number of students participating in Alternative Spring Break 
Alumnus optimistic after Iran agreement