BLCC’s mission is to create an intellectual community through which collaborative research, outreach, and educational efforts on broad life course, family, and demographic issues can flourish. Our primary aim is to provide an administrative and collegial support system on the Cornell University campus for faculty and students by:
- building internal capacity and an organizational/funding structure that permits advances in life course, demographic, and family research;
- leveraging diverse initiatives to foster collaborative research across campus;
- creating depth in the talent pool in demographic and life course scholarship on families and children; and
- providing incentives for sustained faculty involvement in the center.
