High Road Fellowships
Summer 2025 Application is now open!
Engaged learning and applied research fellowships for Cornell students in Buffalo, NY.
Research and Policy
High Road Policy contributes actionable insights to contemporary policy and political discourses in and beyond the regions and communities of Upstate New York.
Buffalo Commons
The Partnership for the Public Good and Cornell University have created a public commons for collective knowledge sharing, impactful applied research, and public policy development. Buffalo Commons is both an in-person platform, fostering these relationships and an online tool, sharing the knowledge of the local area via reports, policy briefs, fact sheets, radio shows, and artistic expressions. Collaborative and democratic in design and purpose, Buffalo Commons hosts a diverse network of faculty, students, practitioners, and community partners.
Good DEEDs
Data for Equitable Economic Development and Sustainability, or Good DEEDS, is an initiative of the Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations (ILR) Buffalo Co-Lab. When fully operational, Good DEEDS will function as a public data repository coupled with High Road Policy, a quarterly issue memorandum and continuous blog.
Buffalo Co-Lab NYS Impact
We are pleased announce several reports that draws upon our ILR expertise, research-based data and policy analysis on a broad range of issues affecting NYS workers, unions, communities and employers. These reports intend to serve as an informative, accessible and relevant resource for New York's policy makers and others. We hope that you find them useful and look forward to engaging with you to advance the important work that you do related to work, employment and labor.
COVID-19 Response
Buffalo Commons virtual convening support, upcoming virtual workshops, blog posts, and opportunities to submit research requests and to help us document stories of community groups taking the lead in a time of crisis.
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Student Opportunities
We offer two paid fellowship programs in Buffalo as well as courses on our Ithaca Campus.
- High Road Fellowships
- Democracy Summer Fellowships
- On-Campus courses
Education and Training
We offer programs designed to train union leaders and those aspiring to lead in organized labor relations.
We also offer specialized training in Health and Safety for inspection and risk assessment, as well as information for practitioners to create safe work places.
These courses and certificates are designed to train union leaders and those aspiring to lead in organized labor relations.
Scientific and Technical Expertise Applied to the Work Environment
