Advance, Cornell ILR School's publication for alumni and friends.
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Jeffrey Joseph '15 begins a Charles B. Ran- gel Graduate Fel lowship in International Affairs. Funded by the U.S. De- partment of State, the fellowship includes two years of graduate study, internships and pro- fessional development. Fellows completing the program serve as U.S. Foreign Service offcers for fve years. Through ILR's Global Service Learning pro- gram, Joseph spent a summer in India. He studied for a semester at the London School of Economics and worked for SanDisk in HR communications in California. At the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Employ- ment and Disability Institute, Joseph worked on a project that helps people with disabili ties fnd jobs and assists businesses with disabil- ity-friendly improvements. This sparked his interest in human rights, said Joseph, who applied for the Rangel Fellowship to further his experience in human rights and international affairs. Joseph says, "Embrace all the opportunities at Cornell and ILR … service learning, on-campus employment, and working with professors and staff to help you reach your goals." 12 Twenty ILR seniors who produced research projects to graduate with honors this spring are: Subin Chung, "Virginia Woolf and the Women of Post-World War I England: At the Intersection of Consumption, Work and Homosexuality" Atticus DeProspo, "Paving a Way for LGBTQ Inclusivity: Using Human Resource Analytics in Cornell Athletics" Erica Freeman, "Disability, Gender and Caste as Barriers to Employment in Rural India" Amy Frieder, "Paving the Way for Political Up- rising: The Role of Labor and Economic Issues in the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions" Ross Gitlin, "A Nationwide Survey of Student Members on Boards of Trustees" Rachel Harmon, "All the freedom we was going to git: Organizing for Economic Justice in Post-Civil Rights Mississippi" Melissa Kelly, "A Statistical Study of the Factors Affecting the Need for a Pitcher to Have Tommy John Surgery" Catherine Klapheke, "Requiem of the Amer- ican Symphony: How Current Labor Relations Practices are Leading to the Decline in Classical Orchestras" Carolyn Krupski, "The State of Arts in New York State: An analysis in creativity" Alizah Lalani, "The Effects of Physical Space on the Worker" Amanda Maya, "Rethinking Social Skill Training Programs: An Analysis on Ways to Improve Social Skill Training Programs to Increase the Social Competence of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders" Kevin Mollica, "Organizing fast-food: Social movement unionism in recent living wage campaigns" NEWS DIGEST A new ILR online Exec- utive Master of Human Resource Management program designed for high-potential HR practitioners has been launched. Brad Bell, associate professor and program di- rector, said ILR exceeded its frst-year enrollment goal and successfully recruited 31 students who start the program this May. "As we talked to chief HR offcers across the country, as well as interested students, we consistently heard that this is the kind of pro- gram they have been waiting for, something that carries the high quality of the Cornell ILR brand and can be completed in a short time — just 15 months — while they work," Bell said. Students will come to the Cornell campus for three one-week sessions, with advisement and instruction from HR faculty and senior HR executives. Some of the frst students are practitioners from top corporations or from international locations. "This degree signals a new direction for ILR graduate programs. It responds to the needs of the contemporary workplace, as well as the professional education needs of future HR leaders," Bell says. A u R p f p l B p r i Labor leaders, activists, policymakers, lawyers and academics joined Cornell ILR's Worker Insti- tute to mark the 80th anniversary of the signing of the National Labor Relations Act in a two-day symposium on some of the most press ing issues in worker rights today. Prompted by the law being reinterpreted and amended, further restricting cate gories of workers covered by its protections, the Advanc- ing Worker Rights conference turned to some of the most innovative thinkers and leaders in the world of labor to address the question: Where do we go from here? Over 300 practitioner, academic and student at tendees engaged with panelists who presented challenging ideas that worker rights are becom- ing increasingly constrained. James Gross, professor of labor relations, law, and history at ILR, and conference chair, said, "This was an extraordinary event that reaffrmed the ILR School's connection with, and commit- ment to, the rights of all workers – as well as its leadership in national and international labor matters." J b g i F p f y i f F Seth Peyla, "Occupy Ivy League?: The Social Perks and Perils of Wall Street's Strongest Pipeline" Jinah Rhee, "Analyzing the Fair Trade Move- ment as Mechanism for Labor Rights Advocacy in Industrial and Labor Relations" Michael Rosenblum, "Whistle While You Work: The Effect of Music Pace on Creative Idea Generation" Matthew Sarraf, "Modern Work: Personal and Social Harms" Jessica So, "Regional Growth Patterns in China: Assessing Policy Frameworks, Finance, Infrastructure and Labor Supply" Andrew Stawasz, "A Self-Fulflling Fatalism: Examining Public Sector Union Endorsements during New York's 2014 Gubernatorial Elec- tions" Jessica Stewart, "Hating Wal-Mart, Loving Target, and the Contradictions of Supply Chain Capitalism" Gavin Zhang, "Tragedy in Bangladesh and the Road to Reform: A Case Study"