Cooperative Enterprise Program (CEP)
The CEP strengthens cooperative-structured or “group-action” organizations by providing information and programs to enhance the skills of enterprise leaders and conducts applied research to further develop the cooperative economy and resilience of the communities in which they operate.

Grand Challenges
The Grand Challenges Program is a hallmark of the Dyson academic experience. This multi-year program is embedded in the undergraduate curriculum. The program involves a sequence of courses—each building a foundation for the next—and culminates in a team-based capstone project centered on a pressing societal issue.

Social Entrepreneurship Practicum: Anabel’s Grocery
A hands-on learning experience that serves as an entry point for new Anabel’s Grocery team members, introducing them to social entrepreneurship, food justice, systems thinking, collaborative leadership practices, and the day-to-day operations of Anabel’s.

Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Teams (SMART)
“The SMART program provided me with an opportunity to explore new cultures through consulting and research engagements, which has been extremely valuable to me as I consider how I can best use my business skillset to make a positive impact in emerging markets.”
— Alethia Chan, Dyson ‘22

Big Red Microenterprise (BRM)
BRM provides free coaching services to promising entrepreneurs, small businesses and local non-profits

Immersion Learning
A Johnson School MBA immersion is a deep dive into a career vertical to prepare students in the skills, practices, and tools essential for their chosen career path. Grounded in real-world experiences and taught by industry-expert faculty, an immersion prepares a student for internship success.

Johnson Leadership Fellows
An experiential leadership opportunity for second-year MBA students. JLFs coach first-year core teams, supporting their personal and team development, and helping them increase their team effectiveness. 

Park Leadership Fellows
The Roy H. Park Fellowship is a two-year full-tuition fellowship award for up to 25 full-time Johnson MBA candidates who have demonstrated outstanding leadership potential.

Women in Investing Conference
The Undergraduate Women in Investing (WIN) Conference is designed to educate undergraduates about careers in the asset management industry where women are vastly underrepresented and facilitate participants’ networking and recruiting opportunities with sponsoring firms.

Establishment at Statler
A refined casual dining restaurant in the Nolan School that is staffed and operated by students in the restaurant-management course during the academic semester.

Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC)
A weekend-long business conference organized and executed by the students of the Nolan School. For over 100 years, HEC has given students the opportunity to practice skills they have learned in the classroom and showcase their talents to the conference’s diverse attendees including Cornell alumni, faculty, staff, and industry professionals from around the globe.

Hotel Leadership Development Program (HLDP)
Offers immersive training and direct mentorship from industry professionals. The program provides in-depth exposure to the full scope of hotel operations, preparing students for advancement in the field.

Hotelie LaunchPad II: Maximizing and Leveraging the Cornell Experience
This course is designed to help you get a clearer idea of who you are, where your passions might lie within the very broad scope of hospitality, and how you can craft a successful Cornell Nolan Hotel School experience that helps launch you in the direction (or directions!) you want to go.

Nonprofit Social Enterprise and Food Justice
Provides an overview of nonprofit social enterprise and food justice through service-learning, with a focus on food systems, social ventures and economic policies.

• It is well-integrated with educational/course content and disciplinary perspectives.
• It addresses a specific community or societal interest, problem or public concern.
• It works with and creates learning from a community partner, including for-profits or not-for-profits; governmental or non-governmental organizations; and those operating within or outside of the United States.
• It includes structured and documented reflection in which students critically reflect on the meaning of their experiences and what they’ve learned, as well as consider next steps and possibilities for future action, ideally reflecting business frameworks for stakeholder inclusion.

Community partners include, but are not limited to traditional collaborators for the SC Johnson College such as:

• Bankers
• Investors
• Auditors
• Hospitality and travel industry operators
• Family owned businesses
• Food industry suppliers
• Data and technology companies
• Entrepreneurs

We partner broadly with all organizations — businesses, government and non-governmental organizations, and not-for-profits.

To satisfy the criteria defining community engaged learning in the SC Johnson College, a documented critical reflection is required. It must include consideration of how the engaged learning activity benefits, or alternatively could benefit, stakeholders beyond shareholders. Student reflections will focus on how their learning experience advances their thinking on furthering sustainability, improving diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and/or advancing shared prosperity in the present and across generations. Students should also reflect on how they can apply this learning in future endeavors.

Many frameworks exist for considering inclusion of all stakeholders. These include, but are not limited to:

• Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Triple Bottom Line: people, planet, profit
• UN-Sustainable Development Goals
• B-Corp
• Circular Economy

Any or all of these frameworks can be a valuable structure for a critical reflection.