by Nancy Kane, PhD, Kinesiology Department – Cries of “Huzzah!” ring out from students on the sidelines watching classmates practice skills used in medieval European jousting.  Some students are acting as knights, some as squires or heralds, some as royalty. Four of them are getting a good workout as horses carrying the knights. One serves […]

by Dan Harms, Chapter Vice President for Academics – The Cortland refrain on our Discretionary Salary Increase money (DSI) process is that it rewards “merit.” Does it? To start out, let’s say that the campus should be recognized for allowing employees to have a voice in the process of deciding how contractual DSI money is […]

by Karla Alwes, Distinguished Teaching Professor, English Department – Because there are so many protests to be made against the Trump administration, we may be forgiven not to have noticed a current trend in education funding that needs to be included in the growing slate of protests.  Since the shockingly farcical idea to decimate funding […]

Contributed by Denise D. Knight, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, English Department, and Noralyn Masselink, Professor, English Department – As part of The Cortland Cause’s Spotlight on Course Teacher Evaluations Years ago, when our careers were in their infancy, a colleague in our department confided that he never assigned a paper grade lower than a B.  […]

Contributed by Sean Dunn, graduate assistant for Recreation, Park and Leisure Studies – A student coalition calling for a ban on the sale of single-use plastic water bottles on Cortland’s campus has gathered more than 650 signatures over the course of the fall semester. Under the leadership of Cortland graduate students Olivia Terry and Sean […]

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