The Working Group must communicate its proposal to the Senate making sure that it takes these questions into consideration:
- What should be the Center’s research and educational agenda? A compelling intellectual vision that encompasses the University is critical.
- Given its research and educational agenda and structural set-up, is there a better name than (for example) “The Cornell Center for the Study of Antiracism?”
- How should the Center interact with colleges, departments and related centers, institutes, and programs?
- How could the Center be used to recruit, support, and retain students and faculty?
- How might the Center enhance the undergraduate experience?
- Beyond its research and teaching mission, what sort of activist/advocate role should the Center have on campus?
- To what extent is the Society for the Humanities or any other campus unit an appropriate model for the Center?
- What should the Center Director and “advisory council” do and how should they be selected?
- How should institutional and external support for the Center be balanced?
- How would the Center be involved with the implementation of the educational requirements that are in the planning stages for students and faculty?
