Cornell Pres resigned?

[Anonymous]

If the Cornell president announced retirement today, effective June 30, that is very short notice for a college president. Nine months or more is not uncommon.

This way Cornell needs an interim president, which never is ideal for fundraising, unless someone internal ( provost? ) is elevated very quickly.

Also there are many major college presidency searches going on right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of parental pressure. Ppl are angry with how she’s handled things with the protests. Threats to pull kids etc.

Very large Jewish population (30%??)

Please stop this. There's also lots of Qatari money coming to Cornell. Unless you are in the inner circle right now, you have no basis for suggesting that either of those things was responsible, and it is the height of irresponsibility to attribute this to a particular group of parents (or a country for that matter). No doubt the wear and tear of this past year played into the decision of this retirement-aged president to retire, but as both an alum and a current parent, I have seen no seriously organized effort through either channel to do more than vent about her.

Umm. I’m Jewish. And a Cornell parent. And a part of the parents group on FB. People are incensed by her inaction and inability to protect Hillel. Look at the statements coming from Hillel and the need for private security.

She’s “both sided” this issue from the beginning.

Good riddance.

Has Cornell Hillel been attacked? I am not on FB but have heard nothing about it from DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the Cornell president announced retirement today, effective June 30, that is very short notice for a college president. Nine months or more is not uncommon.

This way Cornell needs an interim president, which never is ideal for fundraising, unless someone internal ( provost? ) is elevated very quickly.

Also there are many major college presidency searches going on right now.

She was asked to leave. Nicely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the Cornell president announced retirement today, effective June 30, that is very short notice for a college president. Nine months or more is not uncommon.

This way Cornell needs an interim president, which never is ideal for fundraising, unless someone internal ( provost? ) is elevated very quickly.

Also there are many major college presidency searches going on right now.

They have already appointed an interim President for 2 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the Cornell president announced retirement today, effective June 30, that is very short notice for a college president. Nine months or more is not uncommon.

This way Cornell needs an interim president, which never is ideal for fundraising, unless someone internal ( provost? ) is elevated very quickly.

Also there are many major college presidency searches going on right now.

Yeah the provost….not an outside search. Def sus
They have already appointed an interim President for 2 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the Cornell president announced retirement today, effective June 30, that is very short notice for a college president. Nine months or more is not uncommon.

This way Cornell needs an interim president, which never is ideal for fundraising, unless someone internal ( provost? ) is elevated very quickly.

Also there are many major college presidency searches going on right now.

Yeah the provost….not an outside search. Def sus
They have already appointed an interim President for 2 years.

That is what typically happens. The interim will serve during the search as is most likely internal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the Cornell president announced retirement today, effective June 30, that is very short notice for a college president. Nine months or more is not uncommon.

This way Cornell needs an interim president, which never is ideal for fundraising, unless someone internal ( provost? ) is elevated very quickly.

Also there are many major college presidency searches going on right now.

Yeah the provost….not an outside search. Def sus
They have already appointed an interim President for 2 years.

That is what typically happens. The interim will serve during the search as is most likely internal.

Not normal for a 6 week notice /announcement for an Ivy president retirement though.

She doubled down on her positions in her announcement too.

[Anonymous]

Aren't her positions similar to most other campuses? I mean some protests have been furcably ended but most have not. Cornells seems pretty tame

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of parental pressure. Ppl are angry with how she’s handled things with the protests. Threats to pull kids etc.

Very large Jewish population (30%??)

Please stop this. There's also lots of Qatari money coming to Cornell. Unless you are in the inner circle right now, you have no basis for suggesting that either of those things was responsible, and it is the height of irresponsibility to attribute this to a particular group of parents (or a country for that matter). No doubt the wear and tear of this past year played into the decision of this retirement-aged president to retire, but as both an alum and a current parent, I have seen no seriously organized effort through either channel to do more than vent about her.

Umm. I’m Jewish. And a Cornell parent. And a part of the parents group on FB. People are incensed by her inaction and inability to protect Hillel. Look at the statements coming from Hillel and the need for private security.

She’s “both sided” this issue from the beginning.

Good riddance.

Jewish parent here too, and also on the FB page. Of course many Jewish parents are not happy. But the assertion of the other poster was that they were the cause of the retirement, and I have seen zero evidence of that. Nothing like the organized efforts at Penn or Harvard to oust her. No indication either support of Board or donations were drying up. Anyone suggesting that a bunch of Jewish parents, however upset they might be, somehow has the power to oust a university president really needs to have something more than supposition to support that or they are just feeding into (or worse spreading) dangerous conspiracy theories. And I would hope that any Jewish parent or alum would agree with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:she's retiring - not really a big deal

Lemme guess - “to spend more time with her family”

Everyone DC knows that is code for “forced out.”

[Anonymous]

Good. But only if the Board steps up and hires someone who can actually run an organization.

[Anonymous]

Picture perfect academic career, and retiring at 65 after am average length Presidential tenure even before the recent wave of exits.
Her predecessor died after a year in office

Cry more, impotent haters.

[Anonymous]

Cornell reddit posters do not seem to have the hate of dcurbanmoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of parental pressure. Ppl are angry with how she’s handled things with the protests. Threats to pull kids etc.

Very large Jewish population (30%??)

Please stop this. There's also lots of Qatari money coming to Cornell. Unless you are in the inner circle right now, you have no basis for suggesting that either of those things was responsible, and it is the height of irresponsibility to attribute this to a particular group of parents (or a country for that matter). No doubt the wear and tear of this past year played into the decision of this retirement-aged president to retire, but as both an alum and a current parent, I have seen no seriously organized effort through either channel to do more than vent about her.

Umm. I’m Jewish. And a Cornell parent. And a part of the parents group on FB. People are incensed by her inaction and inability to protect Hillel. Look at the statements coming from Hillel and the need for private security.

She’s “both sided” this issue from the beginning.

Good riddance.

Because there are TWO sides to this.

The side that envisions a future where Palestinians aren't second class citizens (or bomb fodder) to Jews in Israel. The side who accepts a two state solution.

And the side that thinks Israel should disappear or that it's OK to mass murder Gazan civilians to catch Hamas, and then continue to have open air prisons for Palestinians because they're worth less than slaves and aren't actually human. Yes, those groups of people are both evil and deserve one another: we should gather them all up, put them in an arena and let them kill each other with bare hands while we create two States.

I have seen a lot more openly-allowed anti-Arab and Islamophobic sentiment in the US than anti-Semitic screeds. People don't notice because here it's considered normal and acceptable to express wariness, if not hatred, of Arabs and Muslims. Practically no one reports those comments to any higher-ups. Parents in the youth orchestra group my kids attend discuss these things openly.

- white European who is neither Arab, Muslim, or Jewish, but who has lived in many countries and knows the US is alone on the world stage in its support for an Israeli assault on Gaza that has gone entirely too far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of parental pressure. Ppl are angry with how she’s handled things with the protests. Threats to pull kids etc.

Very large Jewish population (30%??)

Please stop this. There's also lots of Qatari money coming to Cornell. Unless you are in the inner circle right now, you have no basis for suggesting that either of those things was responsible, and it is the height of irresponsibility to attribute this to a particular group of parents (or a country for that matter). No doubt the wear and tear of this past year played into the decision of this retirement-aged president to retire, but as both an alum and a current parent, I have seen no seriously organized effort through either channel to do more than vent about her.

Umm. I’m Jewish. And a Cornell parent. And a part of the parents group on FB. People are incensed by her inaction and inability to protect Hillel. Look at the statements coming from Hillel and the need for private security.

She’s “both sided” this issue from the beginning.

Good riddance.

Because there are TWO sides to this.

The side that envisions a future where Palestinians aren't second class citizens (or bomb fodder) to Jews in Israel. The side who accepts a two state solution.

And the side that thinks Israel should disappear or that it's OK to mass murder Gazan civilians to catch Hamas, and then continue to have open air prisons for Palestinians because they're worth less than slaves and aren't actually human. Yes, those groups of people are both evil and deserve one another: we should gather them all up, put them in an arena and let them kill each other with bare hands while we create two States.

I have seen a lot more openly-allowed anti-Arab and Islamophobic sentiment in the US than anti-Semitic screeds. People don't notice because here it's considered normal and acceptable to express wariness, if not hatred, of Arabs and Muslims. Practically no one reports those comments to any higher-ups. Parents in the youth orchestra group my kids attend discuss these things openly.

- white European who is neither Arab, Muslim, or Jewish, but who has lived in many countries and knows the US is alone on the world stage in its support for

an Israeli assault on Gaza that has gone entirely too far.

So exactly how far should Israel have gone after Hamas for the brutal killing of 1200 of its citizens?