Over the weekend, media outlets, especially right-leaning ones and those supportive of free speech, were gleeful after Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett called herself “an avid supporter of freedom of speech” at a press event at the Cornell Club in New York City. Garrett also denounced trigger warnings, saying “With respect to trigger warnings, first and...
“We must heed the call to be radical and progressive.” When Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett uttered these words in her inauguration speech last Friday, Cornell students and faculty rejoiced and Cornell’s PR machine, including all of its social media accounts and the Cornell Daily Sun, had a field day. But just hours later Garrett spoke...
The Ithaca Voice recently reported on an internal memo sent by Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett to leaders of different departments within the University focusing on cutting costs, red-tape, and improving decision-making efficiency. Specifically, Garrett targeted Cornell’s “Overly cumbersome bureaucracy and unnecessarily complicated decision-making processes” with the overall goal of having each department “eliminate unnecessary regulation,...