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In 2016, the University received three reports of conflicts between pedestrians and motor vehicles, according to Brady. She stressed that these were just the reported conflicts and that many others go unreported.
“It’s putting people in a very uncomfortable circumstance where they have to explain themselves,” he said. “This resolution makes it very clear that all the downstream systems have to change by a particular date.”
“We can build the greenest buildings here, but if you as an occupant don’t know how to use the green features of the building or we don’t have a culture of suitability here, we’re never going to reach our aspirational goals of carbon neutrality,” Brylinsky said.
His ‘mantra’ includes reviewing undergraduate curriculum, mending racial divisions and encouraging Cornell to act as an example by being a “unified community” — all ideas that Rawlings has previously addressed before the Faculty Senate and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly.
McKinney described the Emergency Care Fund as being “truly active.” She said employees who are granted access to the funds received between $200 and $1,500 in their paychecks.
This discussion of tobacco policy comes a day after the University Assembly discussed establishing a team to investigate a University tobacco policy change.
Although not all details have been decided, Cornell expects to advance the policy barring significant complications.
Current legal guidelines stipulate that employers cannot discriminate based on prior convictions alone, which can be difficult to prove, according to Garrison Lovely ’16, co-founder and president of the Prison Reform and Education Project.
Assembly members prepared requests to bring before the Board March 22, where they will discuss the changes that the Assembly wants to see in the shared governance system.
The Employee Assembly discussed the health and insurance benefits available to Cornell employees at a meeting Wednesday.
These available benefits are communicated to employees through informative programs, according to Paul Bursic, senior director of benefit services. “We do have an extensive outreach in a number of different areas, particularly around retirement plans, to let people know what benefits are available to them,” Bursic said. Bursic added that Cornell offers a number of opportunities for employees to visit the benefits office throughout the year. “There are various seminars and one-on-one counseling,” Bursic said. “We are also working to improve our webpage presence.”
Gina Giambattista, director of the office of the assemblies, and Billy Kepner, vice chair of communications, communicated concerns about insurance available to employees struggling wth mental health illnesses.