AGENDA

September 9, 2026 — 3:30-5:00PM

Physical location: Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall

Contact your unit’s Faculty Senator for the zoom link.

Call to order – Chris B. Schaffer, Dean of Faculty [4 minutes]

Selection of Faculty Senate Speaker – Chris B. Schaffer, Dean of Faculty

Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ Land Acknowledgement
Approval of Minutes: May 6, 2026
Sam Nelson, Senate Speaker

Upcoming university-wide lectures
University and Messenger Lectures – Jenny Goldstein, University Lectures Committee Chair [5 minutes]

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Selection Committee – Robert S. Weiss, A.D. White Professors-at-large program [5 minutes]

Cornell AI Initiative update – Thorsten Joachims, Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence and Steve Jackson, Vice Provost for Academic Innovation [15 min]
Senate Q&A [10 minutes]

Academic Integrity
Update on accepting responsibility and reporting tool – Liz Karns, Academic Integrity Initiatives [5 min]
Senate Q&A [5 min]

Proposed Faculty Senate Procedure for Committee Referral
Overview of proposed procedures – Chris B. Schaffer [10 min]
Senate Q&A [5 min]

Dean of Faculty Announcements and Updates – Chris B. Schaffer, Dean of Faculty [15 min]
• Senator engagement with departments
• Single-use plastics implementation committee
• Policy 6.4 committee
• Extension Professor track
• Faculty Soup: M-F, 11:30-1:30, Statler first floor
• Pop-up soup: Mann Library 160, Sept. 22

• Senate Q&A [5 min]

Good of the Order – Senators [5 minutes]

Adjournment – Sam Nelson, Senate Speaker [1 minute]