Faculty Trustees

  • Faculty Trustees are elected by the University Faculty and serve four-year terms.
  • They are voting ex officio members of the Senate.

Current Faculty Trustees

Abigail Cohn

2020-2024

Department of Linguistics

acc4@cornell.edu

607-255-1105

David R. Lee

2022-2026

Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

drl5@cornell.edu

(607)255-7685


Former Faculty Trustees

2018-2022 Melissa Hines Chemistry & Chemical Biology
2016-2020 Bruce Lewenstein Agriculture and Life Sciences
2014-2018 Mariana Wolfner Arts and Sciences
2012-2016 Barbara Baird Arts and Sciences
2010-2014 Nelson Hairston Arts and Sciences
2008-2012 Rosemary Avery Human Ecology
2006-2010 Ron Ehrenberg Industrial and Labor Relations
2004-2008 Kathleen Rasmussen Nutritional Sciences
2002-2006 Elizabeth Earle Agriculture and Life Sciences
2000-2004 Peter Stein Arts and Sciences
1998-2002 William Fry Agriculture and Life Sciences
1996-2000 Kay Obendorf Human Ecology
1994-1998 Richard Schuler Engineering
1992-1996 Joseph Calvo Biochemistry
1990-1994 Isaac Kramnick Arts and Sciences
1988-1992 Jennie Farly Industrial and Labor Relations
1986-1992 J. Robert Cooke Agriculture and Life Sciences
1984-1988 Mary Beth Norton Arts and Sciences
1982-1986 Howard Evans Anatomy
1981-1985 Walter Lynn Engineering
1980-1984 Dan Sisler Agriculture and Life Sciences
1979-1983 Karen Brazell Arts and Sciences
1977-1981 Don Holcomb Arts and Sciences

Faculty Trustee Legislation from the Faculty Handbook

Under the terms of the 1984 amendment to the university charter, there are two faculty trustee positions on the Board of Trustees.

A faculty member who has served as faculty representative on the Board of Trustees or as faculty trustee for more than one calendar year shall not be eligible for nomination for the office of faculty trustee for a term commencing less than two years after the expiration of the former term. While professors emeritus, if resident in Ithaca, and members of the faculty serving as university administrators, deans, or directors are eligible for nomination, preference shall be given to active members of the faculty who do not hold such offices.

When acting as faculty trustees, faculty members are privileged to express their independent opinions and judgments. However, in view of the fact that the faculty, when it wishes to inform the Board of Trustees of its views, does so either by requesting the president to transmit them to the board or by establishing a special faculty committee to confer with a trustee committee appointed by the board, faculty trustees shall not assume to speak for the faculty, unless expressly authorized by the faculty to do so in particular cases. They may, however, state their opinion as to the probable faculty reaction to any proposal affecting academic or educational policy.

Ithaca-based faculty trustees shall be ex officio voting members of the Faculty Senate. The Committee on Nominations and Elections canvasses the faculty; prepares a slate of trustee candidates for Faculty Senate approval; and circulates a mail ballot, using the Hare system, to all voting members of the University Faculty. The candidate receiving the majority of votes is elected for a four-year term. The results of the election are reported to the President.

All candidates for faculty, staff, and student elected trustee positions should note that if elected the university, must report the salaries paid to any trustee on its annual IRS Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990).  This document is publicly available.

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