"The following summary is borrowed from Lawrence Lan's February 11, 2011 Cornell Daily Sun article, titled "Proposed Move to American Indian Program Enrages Students and Faculty." Read the full text here.
To the dismay of students and faculty, administrators of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are proposing to move the American Indian Program from the fourth floor of Caldwell Hall — where it has been housed since the 1980s — to several separate offices in Kennedy Hall. Students and faculty first received notification of the proposal Feb. 1 and will meet with CALS administrators Friday.
“The [proposal for the move] has been made by Cornell, without consulting with the people most directly affected,” Scott Perez, grad, said. “The University is basically saying, ‘This is what we’re going to do, and now we can discuss tweaking it.’”
CALS administrators proposed relocating to minimize space limitations they fear will arise during the renovation projects in Stocking Hall, Fernow Hall, Rice Hall and Warren Hall, according to Senior Associate Dean of CALS Max Pfeffer.
“[The notification] came down in e-mail — we had no prior word — as an order to move, and AIP reacted quickly to that,” said Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, director of the American Indian Program. "
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