Faculty Senate – April 9, 2025
Agenda for Faculty Senate Meeting
Meeting Time: 3:30-5:00PM
Physical location: Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
Contact your unit’s Faculty Senator for the zoom link.
Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ Land Acknowledgement
Call to order
Approval of Minutes: March 12, 2025
Senate Speaker Jonathan Ochshorn, Emeritus Architecture [ 4 minutes]
Pending Resolution to Adopt a Unified Transfer Credit Policy for Undergraduate Transfer Students
Lisa Nishii, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Industrial and Labor Relations [10 minutes]
Senate Q&A [10 minutes]
Teaching Professor proposals [10 minutes each; hyperlink to proposal in College/School names below]
• Larry Blume, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for Bowers CIS, Information Science and Economics
• Jeff Niederdeppe, Senior Associate Dean for Brooks School of Public Policy, Communication
• Alan Zehnder, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs for Cornell Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Senate Q&A [15 minutes]
Announcements and updates
Eve De Rosa, Dean of Faculty, Chair of the University Faculty Committee, Psychology [10 minutes]
Chelsea Specht, Associate Dean of Faculty, Chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee, Plant Biology
Q&A [5 minutes]
Good of the Order [5 minutes]
Senator Begum Adalet, Government
Adjournment [1 minute]
Jonathan Ochshorn, Senate Speaker, Emeritus Architecture