Cornell University

Health Promoting Campus

Cornell University's commitment: People. Places. Planet.

Health Promoting Campus

As a Health Promoting Campus, our vision is to create and sustain a diverse, welcoming, and inclusive culture in which students, staff, and faculty can flourish. This culture is supportive of holistic individual, social, and ecological wellbeing. Read more about Cornell's Wellbeing Vision and Mission.

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Managing well-being and competing priorities

Cornell student-athlete Quinn Rinkus '26 shares her experiences and how she manages her well-being and competing priorities with a positive mindset.

Students discuss finding connection on campus.

Finding connection on campus

Students share what is was like when they first arrived at Cornell and how they went about finding connection and building community.

Interim President Kotlikoff talks about the Okanagan Charter

About the Okanagan Charter

Interim President Kotlikoff and other university leaders discuss what signing the Okanagan Charter means for Cornell. 

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Indigenous alum teaches through stories

Perry Ground '91 performs traditional stories of the Haudenosaunee around the world, bringing them into a modern setting that is accessible and understandable to new listeners.

Three people sit in Japanese garden

Relax & unwind in our Japanese garden

The Morgan Garden, located at the Johnson Art Museum, is a living abstraction of the story of the Three Laughers of the Tiger Glen.

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How humanists can fight climate change

Can humanities scholars stave off environmental collapse? College of Arts and Sciences professor Caroline Levine, argues humanists have an important role to play in the current political struggle.