Employee Assembly
Constituents’ Lack of Trust Worries Employee Assembly
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Representatives reflect on the E.A.’s weak exposure among employees and their opinions divided on what President Pollack’s response means to E.A.’s transportation plan.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/employee-assembly/page/3/)
Representatives reflect on the E.A.’s weak exposure among employees and their opinions divided on what President Pollack’s response means to E.A.’s transportation plan.
Employee Assembly members were not informed about the status of the tobacco referendum until The Sun reported on it.
President Martha Pollack addressed questions about how free speech applies to University employees and encouraged risk-taking.
Sarah Zemanick, director of the Cornell sustainability office, presented the Sustainability and Climate Change Report, outlining the state of Cornell’s sustainability initiatives.
Support for LGBTQ students from the LGBT Resource Center has been limited by a shortage of staff, said members of the University Assembly’s Campus Welfare Committee at its Tuesday meeting.
President Pollack on Tuesday delivered her first address to Cornell’s staff, lauding them as the “unsung heroes” of the University, and highlighted their role in the recent and upcoming diversity initiatives on campus.
Administered by the Survey Research Institute, the survey covered nearly 5,000 non-academic staff, with a response rate of 68 percent.
The Cornell Employee Assembly unanimously voted to pass a resolution to declare its support for undocumented students under the Deferred Action of Children Arrivals program.
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.”