Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement

The Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE) is committed to supporting excellence within graduate education at Cornell, and fostering environments where all scholars can find community, experience positive mentoring relationships, and establish a sense of belonging. Our collaborative programming provides graduate students and future faculty with academic, community, and professional development opportunities critical to their success at Cornell and beyond. OISE also facilitates positive systemic change to advance access, equal opportunity, and success in graduate education for students from all backgrounds.

Mission: Advance. Engage. Develop.

Advance

To advance positive systemic change and scholar-focused efforts that make graduate education more accessible and inclusive for the benefit of all students.

Engage

To engage graduate students and future faculty in opportunities that support their academic and social sense of belonging. To engage faculty and other partners in graduate education in activities that support their understanding, ongoing development, and application of mission-driven and evidence-based recruitment, selection, and mentoring practices.

Develop

To collaboratively develop and model proactive and effective scholar and systemic-focused initiatives that can be adapted and adopted by others to meet their contextualized needs within and beyond graduate education at Cornell.