Faculty Senate – March 11, 2026
Agenda for Faculty Senate Meeting
March 11, 2026 — 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: February 11, 2026
Jonathan Ochshorn, Senate Speaker, Emeritus Architecture [4 minutes]
Remarks from the President and Provost [10 minutes]
President Michael Kotlikoff, Molecular Physiology, and Provost Kavita Bala, Computer Science
Senate Q&A [15 minutes]
Introduction: [5 minutes]
Kyle Kimball, Vice President for University Relations
Senate Q&A [10 minutes]
Proposed Resolutions: [10 minutes]
Resolution to Create an Ad Hoc Committee to Review Cornell Policy 6.4, Faculty Handbook Section 6.6, and the Duties of the Cornell Office of Civil Rights Faculty Co-Investigator
Resolution to Request an Annual University Report on Academic Freedom
Senators Bryan Sykes, Brooks School of Public Policy and Nate Matias, Communication
Senate Discussion [10 minutes]
Academic Integrity Code and Accepting Responsibility pilot program update [10 minutes]
Liz Karns, Provost Fellow for Undergraduate Education, Statistics & Data Science and Senator Michael Ryan Clarkson, Computer Science
Senate Discussion [10 minutes]
Good of the Order [5 minutes]
Richard Bensel, Government [2.5 minutes]
Caroline Levine, Literatures in English [2.5 minutes]
Adjournment [1 minute]
Jonathan Ochshorn, Senate Speaker, Emeritus Architecture