The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/state-of-the-university/)
Pollack described how students are “applying in droves” and professors, as well as government agencies, non-governmental organizations and industry, are “saying yes to Cornell.”
Pollack, who began her term in April, also repeated her commitment to free speech and said the University community needs to be more kind following concerning episodes, including an assault in Collegetown.
Cornell Tech, on Roosevelt Island, is beginning a life that is “inextricably tied to Ithaca” and will enable the University to build strong departments in both campuses via direct interactions among the faculty, according to Rawlings.
“The administration oversees the operation of the University, making day to day decisions; the board has fiduciary responsibility,” Rawlings said. “But the faculty hold the primary responsibility, for matters related to education and research.”
President Elizabeth Garrett spoke about her commitment to supporting faculty, the student experience at Cornell and cross-campus collaboration in her inaugural State of the University Address Friday morning to attendees of the 65th joint Trustee-Council Annual Meeting. The theme of the weekend-long meeting was “Global Cornell,” according to Board of Trustees Chair Robert S. Harrison ’76, who opened the program. Cornell is at the vanguard of addressing numerous global challenges, with both students and faculty “making a difference on a global scale,” he said. Garrett echoed a similar vision of Cornell’s presence and growth on the global stage. Speaking first about faculty, Garrett announced that the University had raised $638 million for faculty support, including $59 million for faculty renewal, and announced a goal of hiring 80 to 100 new faculty members “and perhaps more in the coming years.”
“Our commitment to great faculty spans the disciplines,” Garrett said, referencing construction projects such as Klarman Hall that will benefit the humanities departments, as well as new grants for science, technology, engineering and mathematics research such as a recent grant of nearly $5 million awarded to The Center for Advanced Computing.