Vice President Ryan Lombardi announced at yesterday's Student Assembly meeting that he is planning to increase the number of front-line staff in the university’s advocacy and resource centers.
Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth presented climate survey results and students brainstormed ideas for more inclusion at Cornell at a Nov. 16 campus dinner.
David Lifka, director of the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing, has been named interim vice president for information technology and CIO to replace Ted Dodds, who will leave Cornell Dec. 6.
Events on campus include a Thanksgiving feast, an exhibition featuring supernatural beings in Asian cultures, a display of student public affairs projects and an opera composed by Patrick Braga ’17.
At a Cornell Silicon Valley presentation Nov. 11, college deans and others discussed ways to foster innovation between technology and the arts. The Johnson Museum will also create new courses.
A new Web portal for students with families aims to help them acclimate and integrate into the Cornell community and centralizes policies, resources and support structures that pertain to them.
CALS Student Services is using customer relationship management technologies for a wide range of academic processes to better anticipate and meet student needs.
LGBT activists Brittany Ferrell and Alexis Templeton spoke on marginalization of people of color in a civil rights movement dominated by heterosexual men and the need for female leadership.
