Publications and Reports

Announcements

• Provost Kavita Bala: Committee on the Future of the American University

Publications

• Ariel Avgar et al. in the Cornell Daily Sun: Why Cornell’s Land Grant Mission Must Define Its Future (May 11, 2026)
• Full Committee in the Cornell Daily Sun: Seeking Feedback on Our Future (April 23, 2026)
• Ariel Avgar et al. in the Cornell Daily Sun: The Only Land-Grant Ivy (March 23, 2026)
• Rick Geddes in the Cornell Daily Sun: Universities Need to Take a Human-Centered Approach (March 5, 2026)
• Drew Margolin in the Cornell Daily Sun: Treat University Critics Like Reviewer #2 (February 18, 2026)
• Ariel Avgar and Praveen Sethupathy in the Cornell Daily Sun: A Matter of Expectations: Universities and Their Evolving Relationship With Government and the Public (January 22, 2026)
• Phoebe Sengers in the Cornell Daily Sun: We Must Expand the Timeline of AI in Higher Education (December 4, 2025)
• Praveen Sethupathy in Cornellians: As Higher Ed Looks to the Future, It’s Vital to Understand the Past (November 25, 2025)
• Adam T. Smith in the Cornell Daily Sun: The Crisis of Trust (November 19, 2025)
• Phoebe Sengers in the Cornell Daily Sun: Join Us in Imagining the Future of Higher Education (November 10, 2025)

Subcommittee Issue Summaries and Core Questions (November 2025)

• Subcommittee on Trust
• Subcommittee on University-Government Relations
• Subcommittee on Technological Change and Artificial Intelligence

Preliminary Frameworks

• Executive Summary (PDF)
• Introduction (PDF)
• Undergraduate Education (PDF)
• Research and Scholarship (PDF)
• Public Impact and Community Engagement (PDF)
• Graduate and Professional Education (PDF)