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The Office of Faculty Development & Diversity (OFDD), provides a range of resources, training and support for deans, department chairs and individual faculty members in the areas of faculty development and diversity. OFDD works with deans, chairs and search committees to improve recruitment and retention practices and to increase diversity in faculty hiring. It provides guidance to the academic leadership and to individual faculty members on mentoring and the tenure and promotion processes. OFDD offers a variety of professional development programming and grants opportunities for faculty. The office actively collaborates with the Division of Human Resources, the Dean of the Faculty, and other offices on campus in its efforts to support the success and wellbeing of all faculty members.
The office is led by John Siliciano, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and Yael Levitte, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Putting Your Best Voice Forward, a workshop with Kathleen Mulligan
FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The OpEd Project--Applications being accepted until December 1, 2014
News
New protocols aim to ensure diverse hiring pool for faculty
by Anne Ju
With faculty retiring in droves, Cornell is looking to recruit and retain the brightest and most diverse generation of new faculty the university has ever seen.
To support that process, the university is implementing new search accountability oversight read more
CU Africana Forum on Ferguson
The killing of an unarmed Michael Brown on August 9 has triggered a national dialogue of passion and protest. On Wednesday, September 10, the Cornell Africana Studies and Research Center and Cornell Law School held a forum to examine some of the reasons for - and the consequences of - that killing. The forum can be accessed at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jsf0tl4Oo8&feature=share
Cornell professor included in black oral history effort
‘History Makers’ captures the stories of over 2,500 prominent African Americans
Check out this story on ithacajournal.com: http://ithacajr.nl/1onLZus
Office of Faculty Development and Diversity
122 Day Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Ph: 607.255.6867
Fax: 607.255.4672
ofdd@cornell.edu