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Tag: Kotlikoff-IntPres

  • Information on Executive Orders

    Jan. 28, 2025 Dear Cornell Community, We have heard from many of you concerned about how the new executive orders, federal agency directives, and policy announcements may affect your work and your studies, and what impact they will have on our research, teaching, and public engagement missions. Cornell is closely monitoring these rapid developments: Our…

  • Kavita Bala named 17th provost of Cornell University

    September 25, 2024 Dear Cornellians, I write with exciting news that Kavita Bala has been selected as Cornell’s 17th provost. She will begin her term of office on January 1, 2025. Kavita’s career at Cornell began in 1999 as a postdoctoral researcher, and she became an assistant professor of computer science in 2002 and chair…

  • Actions in the wake of last week’s career fair disruption

    September 23, 2024 Dear Cornellians, At the beginning of the semester we outlined the principles underlying our approach to expressive activity. That approach included full support for free expression and guidelines for addressing speech and actions that infringe on others’ rights or involve violence or damage to university property. Our approach recognizes the freedom to…

  • UAW labor contract ratified

    September 3, 2024 Dear Cornell Community, On Sunday and Monday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) voted to ratify a new labor contract with the University. As shared in the recent message to campus, the contract will substantially improve compensation and benefits for the University’s service and maintenance workers in Dining, Building Care, Grounds, and Transportation,…

  • Tentative agreement reached between Cornell-UAW

    August 28, 2024 Dear Cornell community, We are pleased to share that Cornell and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract that will substantially improve compensation and benefits for the University’s service and maintenance workers in Dining, Building Care, Grounds, and Transportation, and at the College of…

  • Freedom and responsibility

    August 26, 2024 Dear Cornellians, Our campuses are home to tens of thousands of people with diverse lived experiences, strong convictions, and differing viewpoints. This diversity is a source of our strength but also brings with it a shared responsibility to listen to and learn from one another. As we begin the fall semester, we…

  • A Cornell Welcome

    August 22, 2024 Dear Cornellians, I’m delighted to welcome all of you to the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year at Cornell. Whether you are a student, faculty, or staff; new to our community, or a veteran Cornellian—I’m glad to have you with us as we embark together on a new year of teaching and…

  • Moving Cornell forward together

    July 1, 2024 Dear colleagues, It is an honor to begin my term as Cornell’s interim president, and to have the opportunity to advance, in this new role, the work of the extraordinary university and community I am proud to call home. I have been at Cornell for 24 years: teaching students, running a laboratory,…