The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/arts-and-sciences/)
Prof. Gretchen Ritter ’83, government, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the next executive dean and vice provost of the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences starting August 1.
Seven months after the previous College of Arts and Sciences director of admissions left Cornell, the college appointed a new director and added a new deputy director of admissions position in late March.
The College of Arts and Sciences will expand its first year advising program to include all newly-enrolled students, it announced on March 29. The program — in which new students meet weekly in small weeks with faculty members to ease the transition into college life — was implemented as a pilot initiative two years ago.
The Milstein Program is halfway through its inaugural year. The program seeks to establish an interdisciplinary approach to research within the College of Arts and Sciences.
“I think it’s been a really long journey for all of us,” founding member of Cornell University Deaf Awareness Project Jackie Rachaf ’14 told The Sun.
“It’s very important that scientists in general engage in the public conversation and we celebrate the people that excel at it,” Lincoln said.
Pepinsky explained that the committee’s new recommendations did make some “compromises” in an effort not to “disproportionately burden” students with heavy course loads.
Ithaca Coalition for Unity and Cooperation in the Middle East hosted their third Building Unity: Cleaning the Hate at Wood Street Park.
Jayawardhana said he is “delighted” to become a part of the “vibrant community of scholars” at the University.
Arts college faculty decided to not vote on a proposal to keep the college’s language requirement the same, putting off a decision on the requirement to an undetermined date.