COE is one of the largest, most comprehensive university-based outdoor education program in the country. We develop teamwork, leadership, and personal growth through active learning. COE serves the broad membership of the Cornell community: students and student instructors, faculty and staff, alumni and friends, local community and outside groups, placing participants into hands-on learning situations that promote honest and constructive assessment of individual and group performance, provide natural and immediate consequences to actions, and promote personal growth.