The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/faculty_senate/)
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.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced that the modified calendar proposed by the Academic Calendar Committee has been approved.
“Our current calendar is a very radical calendar,” Dean of Faculty Charles van Loan said. “For example, if you look at how much other universities devote to new student orientation, we are at the very bottom.”
The Faculty Senate gathered to discuss policies revising financial aid policies, redressing imbalances in judicial proceedings and reaffirming academic freedom on Wednesday afternoon.