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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. Read More

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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. Read More

• 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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read 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. Read More

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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. Read More

• 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. Read More

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  Art Interest Group nets $1300 for hunger relief project

  During Block 1, 20 students in Cornell’s Art Interest Group (AIG) contributed their time and artistic talents to Empty Bowls, a nationwide anti-hunger project. Read More

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  19th annual service day Aug. 31

  More than 300 students will work at 21 sites around the region as part of Cornell College's 19th annual Service Day— part of the college's New Student Orientation program. Read More

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  Cornell commits to Real Food Challenge goals

  Cornell recently underscored its commitment to healthy dining practices, becoming one of the first 20 schools in the country to commit to the Real Food Challenge. Read More

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  DiCicco’s commitment to service leads to City Year post

  Alex DiCicco's discovered a passion for service at Cornell. After graduation, he will work with youth in Orlando through the AmeriCorps City Year program. Read More

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  Students make impacts during Spring Break

  This year’s Alternative Spring Break project was the largest yet, with 92 students traveling to seven locations around the U.S., ranging from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, to Elm Mott, Texas, to Chicago and Atlanta. Read More

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  Cornell teams with Special Olympics Iowa to host Unified Sports Day

  103 Cornell students joined 85 athletes from Special Olympic Iowa (SOIA) for a memorable experience at Cornell’s sixth annual Unified Sports Day in the Small Multi-Sport Center. Read More

• Cornell College Relay For Life places second in the nation

  Cornell College’s 2012 Relay For Life was second in the nation and first in the Midwest Division for youth events. The event raised nearly $42,000. Cornell has received an award five out of the last six years, but has not placed second in the nation since 2009. Read More