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Office of the Dean of Faculty

Connecting & Empowering Faculty

Monday Messages Guide

Students in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning go through a critique in Milstein Hall.Audience

Monday Messages are sent to all emeriti, tenured, tenure track and RTE faculty. (all academic titleholders are listed here,)

A small group of administrators also receive the Monday Messages.

Peter DelNero, a graduate student in biomedical engineering (BME), with a giant pumpkin that he grew at the Dilmun Hill Student Farm (CUAES).Rationale

Monday Messages from the Office of the Dean of Faculty are:

  • A simple approach to keeping the faculty informed about university-wide information.
  • An attempt to prevent faculty from being further overwhelmed with emails.

Monday Messages are used for regular Dean of Faculty business such as:

  • Announcements that relate to university lectures and the Faculty Senate.
  • Classroom-related reminders that deal with semester start, breaks, and wrap-up.
  • Events that address campus climate issues.

Susan Ashdown, professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design (FSAD), works with a graduate student on halfscale dress forms in the FSAD studio.Rules

  1. Submit items for inclusion at least one week in advance to deanoffaculty@cornell.edu.
  2. Item should be limited to one or two sentences.
  3. Include hyperlinks to online resources within messages, for readers who require more information.
  4. Provide clear time and location information, as appropriate.

Events/documents that have broad audience appeal and speak to faculty matters or concerns.