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Cornell Unveils New Testing Sites With Surveillance Testing to Begin Sept. 2
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Undergraduates are to be tested twice a week once the semester starts.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/kotlikoff/)
Undergraduates are to be tested twice a week once the semester starts.
Administrators met an audience of 3,000 registered guests to discuss the upcoming semester at the international student forum.
In the most University update regarding the fall semester, Provost Kotlikoff offered more information, even as many question are yet unanswered.
A contentious Faculty Senate meeting on Wednesday showed the depth of faculty disapproval for the proposed rebranding of the College of Human Ecology as the College of Public Policy.
The Student Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday that would create a new seat for Dyson students, amid questions over if they deserved representation on the S.A.
On March 28, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced the University’s new Center for Social Sciences, intended to improve the University’s research and collaboration efforts among social science disciplines.
The initiative is one of Provost Michael Kotlikoff’s eight “radical collaborations” — task forces that promote interdepartmental cooperation on modern issues.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced that the modified calendar proposed by the Academic Calendar Committee has been approved.
Cornell suspended Prof. Mukund Vengalattore, physics, without pay on June 1, one day after the professor asked a court to hold the University in contempt and six months after a tenure review process that a judge said was “flawed, secretive, unfair.”
Dean Knuth’s role as Chair of the Working Group, and filing of an incident report of a potential investigation of the campus code after being approached by concerned student members of the AFAWG, have made her the focus of attacks that are both unfortunate and undeserved. Over the past few weeks she has been subjected to accusations by advocates of a student who violated the confidential processes of the Working Group, in many cases misrepresenting the facts of the referral and consistently mischaracterizing the motives and goals of the students, faculty and administrators who spent many hours working to improve Cornell’s undergraduate financial aid policies.