After close to eight months of work, the Provost’s Committee on the Future of the American University released a set of preliminary documents this week that articulate core principles and emerging understandings that are meant to guide a broader community conversation about Cornell University’s path forward. We now look to you, the Cornell community, to let us know where you agree and disagree.

Our committee was launched by Provost Kavita Bala with the charge of envisioning the future of Cornell as an American university by better understanding three overarching pressures: the rapid pace of technological change, including artificial intelligence; the shift in the longstanding relationship between the federal government and universities; and the erosion of public trust in higher education.

The purpose of our analysis is to provide an aspirational direction for Cornell that will secure a thriving future and help us to reimagine the core missions of the University in ways that position us for continued relevance and success. Reimagining our future is, at its core, a collective........

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