About Us
The Cornell Global Development Club was founded in 2007 by Vanessa Coleman to address the need in the Cornell community for a club specific to the general concept of Global Development. The club is actually modeled after similar clubs at the Columbia School of Business, the Wharton School of Business, Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School and the Yale Business School with particular gratitude to the David Del Ser Bartolome at the Columbia Business School for all his help and guidance. Our advisor is Dr. Phillip McMichael who is faculty in the Development Sociology Department. Special Thanks to Dr. Max Pfeffer, Sarosh Kuruvilla (ILR) and Ms. Rene Hoffman.
The Mission of the club is to facilitate dialogue and engagement amoung faculty, graduates and undergraduates and across the Cornell Community about Global Development. Our primary aim is to facilitate engagement and dialoge in Global Development through hosting events and discussion groups, publishing a joural and blog as well as through our international and domestic projects. More specifically the club hopes to achieve the following outcomes:
- Provide a platform for scholarly dialogue on Global Development through our Global Futures competition, Model ILO Conference, Journal Symposium and Model ILO conference as well as our Journal, Blog and discussion groups
- Connect students to faculty engaged in Global Development research and scholarship
- Publicize events and projects going on in the Cornell Community related to global development
- Intiate interntaional and domestic Global Development Projects
- Host speakers
- Assist both undergraduate and graduate students by researching, publicizing and if possible hosting career development opportunities such as Alumni luncheons and Info Sessions
- Fundraise for on-going Global Development projects
- Fundraise for our activities
- Social events
- Provide networking opportunities with other student organizations at Cornell and other universities as well as non-profit organizations