Faculty Senate – May 7, 2025
Agenda for Faculty Senate Meeting
Meeting Time: 3:30-5:00PM
Physical location: G10 Biotechnology Building; reception immediately following in atrium
Contact your unit’s Faculty Senator for the zoom link.
Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ Land Acknowledgement
Call to order
Approval of Minutes: April 9, 2025
Senate Speaker Jonathan Ochshorn, Emeritus Architecture [ 4 minutes]
Policy 6.13 updates
Katie King, Associate Vice President for Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX [5 minutes]
Senate Q&A [5 minutes]
Motion to vote on revised proposed Resolution to Adopt a Unified Transfer Credit Policy for Undergraduate Transfer Students
Lisa Nishii, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Industrial and Labor Relations [10 minutes]
Senate Q&A [10 minutes]
Generative AI Advisory Council update [5 minutes]
Steve Jackson, Information Science and Vice-Provost for Academic Innovation
Senate Q&A [5 minutes]
Announcements and updates
Eve De Rosa, Dean of Faculty, Chair of the University Faculty Committee, Psychology [15 minutes]
Chelsea Specht, Associate Dean of Faculty, Chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee, Plant Biology
Q&A [10 minutes]
Motion to vote on Teaching Professor proposals [hyperlink to proposals in College/School names below]
Senate Discussion [15 minutes]
In attendance:
• Larry Blume, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for Bowers CIS, Information Science and Economics
• Jeff Niederdeppe, Senior Associate Dean for Brooks School of Public Policy, Communication
• Alan Zehnder, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs for Cornell Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Good of the Order [5 minutes]
Senator Chris Schaffer, Biomedical Engineering
Adjournment [1 minute]
Jonathan Ochshorn, Senate Speaker, Emeritus Architecture
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In regards to the unified transfer credit policy: the proposal is conflating two issues: transfer *students* and transfer *credits*. Students who start their education at Cornell may look to transfer *credits* for a number of reasons, including inability to pass the class at Cornell. These two situations should be handled differently.
The prohibition against considering rigor or academic integrity standards of proposed transfer courses is also a major concern.
I am strongly in favor of a policy that streamlines this process, makes relevant information available to students, decreases staff and faculty time spent assessing individual courses, and makes more unified determinations. But I am not in favor of this version of the policy.