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On May 4, 2026, Cornell’s direction for AI innovation was emphasized early and often: don’t start with the technology, start with the problem. That framing set the tone for the university’s latest AI Demo Day, where students, faculty, and staff presented projects rooted in real campus needs.Rather…
Considering a career shift? Learn to support the CEMI modernization efforts or backfill an open role through new limited-term assignments across the insitution.Designed around evolving project needs, the backfill opportunities allow participants to build new skills, gain exposure to different teams…
Cornell launched its Kindsight Ascend initiative in mid-April, beginning a university-wide effort to unify legacy systems and improve the donor and engagement experience.
Even before staffing levels began to shift, Rose Howard was rethinking how work gets done—rebuilding her processes and adapting her workload with Smartsheet. Today, those efforts form the backbone of how she manages, analyzes, and shares complex data with faculty and administrators in Cornell’s…
Curt Cole, Vice President and Chief Global Information Officer, announced in a May 2026 Town Hall that Cornell’s Experience Modernization Initiative (CEMI) has entered a major new phase, with several core programs—led by the Workday platform—moving into the “build” stage. This phase focuses on…
More than 200 CEMI colleagues recently came together for the Workday Architect and Configure kickoff, marking an important shift from preparation to hands‑on decision making. This phase is about more than building a system—it’s about intentionally designing the foundation that will shape how work…
Box Drive now offers a better way to access your files in Box directly from your desktop without taxing your local storage. Box Drive Features and Benefits
Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) is transitioning its Slack workspaces to Microsoft Teams on January 23, 2026. Previously announced in October, the move helps streamline communication across the organization and supports the university’s broader cost-savings goals reflected in Resilient…
Fermin Romero and Marty Sullivan unveiled Cornell’s AI Platform in Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent 2025 in early December. Presented as a blueprint for universities seeking to harness artificial intelligence without sacrificing security or agility, the initiative also democratizes AI development.
In his November 2025 CEMI webinar, Chief Global Information Officer Curtis Cole outlined the university’s multi-phase transformation aimed at streamlining administrative processes and improving the customer experience.
The Software Development Special Interest Group (SD-SIG) invites the Cornell developer community to its next Developer Excellence Workshop on Thursday, December 18, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. In this virtual session, dive into one of Cornell's most complex and diverse technical domains: the…
As part of a cost-saving initiative and a broader effort to streamline communication across our organization, CIT will transition from Slack to Microsoft Teams by January 23, 2026.This change aligns with the modernization theme, “as common as possible, as different as absolutely necessary,” and…
The Software Development Special Interest Group (SD-SIG) invites the Cornell developer community to its next Developer Excellence Workshop on Thursday, October 30, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. This virtual session will guide participants through key steps in accessing and using Cornell’s AI Gateway,…
Alexander Colvin, the Kenneth F. Kahn Dean and Martin F. Scheinman Professor of Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, captured the audience’s attention with historical anecdotes, quotes, and analogies at the first keynote address for Emerging Tech Dialogues - The Future of Work on October 14, 2025…
Workday has been selected as the university’s new technology foundation for managing finance, budget, HR, research, and student services. This major milestone in the Cornell Experience Modernization Initiative (CEMI) was jointly announced on October 1, 2025, by Chief Global Information Officer…
Microsoft has released a new seamless login feature for Box. If you collaborate with Microsoft 365 files through Box Drive on desktop, you can grant access to Box and enjoy several benefits:
SharePoint, a Microsoft file sharing solution, now requires a minimum of two owners per site. The guidance surfaced as early as 2020 but the rapid adoption of generative AI tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, increases the risk for both oversharing information and site control vulnerabilities.…
Over the next several years, every Cornell community member will benefit from better, simpler ways to do administrative tasks. The multi-year Cornell Experience Modernization Initiative (CEMI or “See Me”) is posed to improve the work experience for all of us. With those improvements comes change, a…
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Cornell Microsoft Teams users will soon have the option to turn on a new chat and channel experience being rolled out by Microsoft. Once enabled, individual and meeting chats and channels appear in the same pane. Smart filter buttons let you show only unread messages, only chat, only channels, or…