The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/faculty_senate/)
After releasing six potential scenarios for the fall semester, Cornell finds itself dealing with opposing student and faculty interests in assessing whether it is safe to reopen campus in the fall.
Cornell released a list of different scenarios that give a glimpse as to how the fall semester could play out, showing that life on campus won’t return to normal during the coronavirus pandemic.
In a concession to students, the deadline to change a course’s grading basis to S/U will move from April 21 to May 12, the last day of classes. The administration decided against any universal S/U grading scheme.
The Faculty Senate discussed the effects of transitioning to virtual classes on their students, and also passed a resolution on fossil fuel divestment, during an eventful meeting on March 12.
After a Faculty Senate meeting, and prolonged debate from students and faculty alike, the College of Human Ecology will not be restructured or rebranded to emphasize the study of public policy.
The Faculty Senate introduced a resolution to support divestment from fossil fuels at the Feb. 12 meeting.
The Faculty Senate meeting on Wednesday touched on a number of campus questions that remain to be answered, with proposed consensual relationship policies and discussions regarding reorganization of the social sciences at the forefront of the meeting.
The Consensual Relationships Policy Committee recommended a ban on all sexual and romantic relationships between faculty members and graduate or professional students who are affiliated with the same graduate field or degree program.
The heated discussion on the resolution left no time in the 90-minute senate meeting to vote on which of the two policies to adopt, forcing the body to table the vote presumably until their next meeting.
“The ILR faculty call upon [the faculty senate] to support our vote of no merger,” said Prof. Bill Sonnenstuhl, Industrial and Labor Relations.