The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/provost-michael-kotlikoff/)
In an April 3 email, President Martha Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff rejected a March 23 Student Assembly resolution requesting content warnings for graphic classroom content, citing academic freedom and academic integrity.
In the past week, some of us have observed people walking around in campus buildings without masks on. It appears that there is no mechanism for enforcement of this mask mandate. We also will not necessarily know if an individual we encounter in or outside of class has been vaccinated or tested. All we can do is wear masks.
Although still at the yellow alert level, the University has not reported any new COVID-19 cases for the past two days.
Although the University has announced its classes will begin early September, Cornellians await pre-enrollment as administration figures out complexities of instruction for the fall semester.
Professors and faculty voice concern regrading in-person teaching for the upcoming semester, taking into account the health risks it may pose.
In the most University update regarding the fall semester, Provost Kotlikoff offered more information, even as many question are yet unanswered.
After Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced that the University would extend opt-in S/U to the last day of classes, some students expressed frustration, while others were pleased with the outcome.
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.
Student Assembly denounces a proposal calling for the change of the Cornell School of Human Ecology to the School of Public Policy, over an hour before the University announced it had decided on a different tack.
New school of Public Policy is announced after months of conflict and debate.