In a Surprise, Cornell's President Resigns
Source: New York Times
May 9, 2024 Updated 4:28 p.m. ET
Martha E. Pollack, Cornell Universitys president for the past seven years, announced in a surprise email on Thursday afternoon that she is resigning.
I understand that there will be lots of speculation about my decision, so let me be as clear as I can: This decision is mine and mine alone, she wrote in her email, addressed to Cornellians. After seven fruitful and gratifying years as Cornells president and after a career in research and academia spanning five decades Im ready for a new chapter in my life.
Dr. Pollack, a computer scientist, said she would remain in office until July 1. In a separate announcement, Kraig H. Kayser, the chairman of Cornells board of trustees, said the board had asked the university provost, Michael I. Kotlikoff, to serve as interim president for two years. Dr. Kotlikoff was previously dean of Cornells College of Veterinary Medicine, among other posts.
Dr. Pollacks resignation means that four of the eight Ivy League universities Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell will now be in various stages of leadership transition, three of them with interim presidents already in charge or presidential searches underway. The presidents of Harvard and Penn resigned in the last six months, in part because of fallout over their testimony at a December congressional hearing investigating campus antisemitism.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/cornell-president-resigns-martha-pollack.html
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dem4decades
(11,330 posts)mahina
(17,797 posts)Did it load onto your device without your ok?
Thank you.
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dem4decades
(11,330 posts)This time of year it hears and let's you know, all of the birds that have returned.
It's wonderful.
JohnSJ
(92,585 posts)run.
Think. Again.
(9,080 posts)jimfields33
(16,250 posts)I think that was awful and led to this most likely.
Think. Again.
(9,080 posts)..or worse.
That's why the people who shout those kinds of things are called "instigators", they're hoping for a heated reaction. It's best not to fall for that trap.
Mawspam2
(751 posts)...when they get thrown out of Congress in November.
PlutosHeart
(1,306 posts)since this is exactly what is happening to a State University in MN. The President, who happens also to be a lesbian, (hmmmmmm) is also stepping down in fact a couple months early and there will be an interim there also. I had on first impression the thought that they wanted her gone because of her life choices. ☹️
Personally thought she did some amazing things and am sorry to see her go.
malthaussen
(17,248 posts)... one might almost think some kind of systematic campaign was being conducted against female University Presidents. But that's absurd, right?
-- Mal
Prairie Gates
(1,140 posts)On one side of the ledger, plenty of money for retirement, and plenty of nice places to travel to.
On the other side, fanatics, scoundrels, lunatics, and opportunists looking to pick her bones at any misstep.
She's pulling a Ray Patterson.
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