The Center for Teaching Innovation

The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) supports Cornell University teaching community members across the academic career span, roles, and disciplines. A full complement of individualized services, as well as programs, institutes, and campus-wide initiatives is available to new and existing Cornell faculty. Recent CTI programming includes:

• Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom, an online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, explores strategies for inclusive course design and pedagogical practices supporting learning community-based experiences, student engagement and belonging across difference.
• The New Faculty Teaching Academy, a series of programs allowing new faculty to design ready-to-use teaching materials, discuss best practices in teaching, receive feedback, and develop strategies for inclusive teaching.

CTI also teams with departments, schools and colleges, and related units to create and sustain multicultural, rigorous, and vibrant learning environments.

The Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring Resource Center (FAIM)

The FAIM Resource Center is an equity-based systemic change initiative for inclusive mentorship created to help foster supportive mentoring relationships as both mentees and mentors progress in their academic and professional journeys.

FAIM and OFDD work together to help mentors and mentees define, communicate, and share responsibility for their mutual goals on an ongoing basis. To foster growth-minded mentoring relationships, Cornell faculty are connected to a range of mentorship development opportunities including one-on-one consultations, mentorship trainings, and workshops for both graduate students and faculty members.

Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble

The Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble (CITE) holds trainings to facilitate dialogue around diversity and inclusion. CITE programs create safety around highly charged workplace issues, facilitating honest dialogue, self-awareness and organizational learning on four levels: personal, interpersonal, group and institutional/community.

CITE makes concepts about diversity and inclusion real and personal for participant groups. Interactive theatre and facilitated dialogue from multiple points of view create a climate for participants that builds inclusion, fosters collaboration and gives participants knowledge and tools to take back to their own work environments.

The Scheinman Institute

The Scheinman Institute combines the academic depth of faculty in conflict/dispute resolution, employee relations, diversity and inclusion, and labor relations with the practical knowledge of leading practitioners in the field to provide intensive skill development for individuals, and best practices for organizations.

The Scheinman Institute, within Cornell’s ILR School, partners with organizations like OFDD to offer mediation workshops and support. For more information, contact OFDD@cornell.edu.