The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/provost/)
From the only woman in her college’s computer science class to Cornell’s newly-appointed provost, Kavita Bala sat down with The Sun to speak about her transition to the new role.
Kavita Bala will take the helm as Cornell’s 17th provost, with a five-year appointment starting Jan. 1, 2025. Bala currently serves as the dean of the Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. Interim President Michael Kotlikoff announced the appointment in a Wednesday morning email, thanking John Siliciano ’75 for his leadership as interim provost. Bala’s career at Cornell began in 1999 as a postdoctoral researcher.
The Sun questioned Interim President Michael Kotlikoff on protester repercussions, institutional neutrality, the Class of 2028 demographic data and financial aid.
With Provost Michael Kotlikoff transitioning to serve as interim president, Prof. John Siliciano ’75 will serve as interim provost effective July 1.
There are moments you need to publicly admit a mistake and change course. This is one of them. Publicly reverse course. Do it now.
Prof. Anthony Burrow and Prof. Julia Felippe Ph.D. ’02 take on their new roles as provost’s fellows for public engagement to contribute to the University’s community-engaged learning initiative.
In its two decades of existence, the website RateMyProfessor.com has become notorious on college campuses. While some students turn to the review site for informal evaluations of their prospective professors, many criticize the site as unfairly biased and unrepresentative.
Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff wrote a lengthy column on Tuesday to advocate for an often-undiscussed minority group at Cornell: veterans.
Cornell University has followed up its two audits by opening yet another investigation into Brian Wansink, a former Cornell professor and food marketing researcher, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced in a letter on Monday.
Robert Allen Plane served as provost in the late 1960s and early 1970s, during a period of tumultuous race relations and political unrest throughout the country and on campus.