Archive: Around Town

This fall has seen the largest incoming cohort of undergraduate student veterans at Cornell University in more than four decades: 33, comprised of 28 transfer and five first-year students. The total number of enrolled undergraduate student veterans is now 67, up from 41 just a year ago. Additionally, there are about 166 graduate and professional student veterans enrolled.

Cornell continues to build a community that welcomes veterans to the university, based on an array of programs and resources that proactively address their needs and draw on their strengths and experiences. While still a small percentage of the overall student population, Cornell’s student veteran community has been experiencing significant recent growth.

That growth is thanks to a multipronged approach that includes dispelling myths about the affordability and accessibility of an Ivy League education for veterans.

Much of the credit is due to retired Marine Corps 1st Sgt. Mary Fisk, student veteran adviser and program manager for Cornell. She was recruited to Cornell in summer 2019 as part of efforts to support Provost Michael Kotlikoff’s directive to increase veteran undergraduate enrollment at Cornell and boost related programming and services.

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