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Faculty Senate – May 7, 2025

Agenda for Faculty Senate Meeting

Meeting Time: 3:30-5:00PM
Physical location: G10 Biotechnology Building; reception immediately following in atrium
Contact your unit’s Faculty Senator for the zoom link.

Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ Land Acknowledgement
Call to order
Approval of Minutes:
 April 9, 2025
Senate Speaker Jonathan Ochshorn, Emeritus Architecture [ 4 minutes] 

Policy 6.13 updates
Katie King, Associate Vice President for Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX [5 minutes]
Senate Q&A [5 minutes]

Motion to vote on revised proposed 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]

Generative AI Advisory Council update [5 minutes]
Steve Jackson, Information Science and Vice-Provost for Academic Innovation
Senate Q&A [5 minutes]

Announcements and updates
Eve De Rosa, Dean of Faculty, Chair of the University Faculty Committee, Psychology [15 minutes]
Chelsea Specht, Associate Dean of Faculty, Chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee, Plant Biology
Q&A [10 minutes]

Motion to vote on Teaching Professor proposals [hyperlink to proposals in College/School names below]
Senate Discussion [15 minutes]

In attendance:
• 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

Good of the Order [5 minutes]
Senator Chris Schaffer, Biomedical Engineering

Adjournment [1 minute]
Jonathan Ochshorn, Senate Speaker, Emeritus Architecture

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