Welcome!
The Cornell University Ombuds is a confidential, independent, informal, and impartial resource available to students, staff, and faculty at the university to address conflicts, concerns, or other issues affecting their work, life, or study at Cornell. We offer a safe place to identify options for addressing individual situations. We operate according to the principles of the International Ombuds Association.
Cornell Ombuds Office appointments are offered via Zoom, telephone, or in person and may be scheduled by email or telephone. The Ombuds Office is available to students, faculty and staff affiliated with all units of Cornell University, excluding Weill Cornell Medicine.
Email: ombuds@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-4321
As part of Cornell’s culture of respect and caring community, our efforts are geared toward managing conflict, thereby improving campus life and building dignity, fairness, and equity into the experience of all students, staff and faculty. To that end, use of the Office of the Ombuds is entirely voluntary. If a community member chooses to meet with an Ombuds, the visitor will be understood to have agreed to abide by the the IOA ethical principles, including acknowledging that the Ombuds does not receive formal notice for the University, agreeing not to call the Ombuds to testify with respect to confidential communications, and agreeing to abide by confidentiality by not recording meetings with the Ombuds.