We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful campus. Our events begin Monday, June 13th at 4:30pm and we will close around lunch time on Wednesday, June 15th.
Monday, June 13
4:30pm Guided walk/tour (Statler Hotel to the Johnson Museum of Art) with Corey Earle
Meet in the Statler Lobby. Corey Earle is the Associate Director of Student Programs in the Office of Alumni Affairs, teaches “The First American University,” a 400-person course on the history of Cornell, serves as an advisor for several student organizations, and is the chairman of the board of trustees of The History Center in Tompkins County.
5-6:30p Opening reception & self-guided tour of museum, Johnson Museum of Art
Welcoming remarks from Barb Knuth, Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, and Paul Streeter, Vice President of Budget and Planning, at about 6pm.
6:30-8p Dinner, Johnson Museum of Art
The Johnson Museum of Art was designed by architect I.M. Pei and constructed in 1973. It is named after its primary benefactor, Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. of S.C. Johnson & Sons (“Johnson Wax”), class of 1922. Special exhibits include Leo Villareal’s Cosmos and Matthew Schreiber’s Crossbow.
Tuesday, June 14 (148 Stocking Hall)
8am Breakfast, 148 Stocking Hall
Stocking Hall is the home to Cornell’s Food Science program and includes the dairy plant (and ice cream making facilities), laboratories for wine production, and a distillery.
8:40-9:20 Welcome, Introductions, Campus Updates
9:30-10:50 Admissions Questions
- Tuition Setting & Financial Aid Allocations, Kathleen Dettman & B Pinar Basim, Stanford
- ASQ Dashboard, Tracy Barnes, Brown
- Admissions Dashboards, Chari Fuerstenau, Cornell
- Implications of Race Neutral Admissions, David Jamieson-Drake, Duke
- Comments: Jason Locke, Associate Vice Provost for Enrollment, Cornell
Each presentation should be limited to 15-minutes, leaving several minutes for comments and questions.
11:00-11:45 Jordan Matsudaira, Assistant Professor, Policy Analysis & Management
From 2013-15, Jordan served on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and led the technical development on the College Scorecard. He is interested in developing improvements to the Scorecard that would have little additional burden on institution data collection efforts.
Noon-1pm Lunch at the Cornell Plantations, Ten-Eyck Room
The Plantations include 25 acres of botanical gardens in addition to the arboretum and natural areas.
1:10-1:45 From PDF to Tableau
- Pros and Cons of a Tableau Fact Book, Alicia Betsinger, Dartmouth
- My Big Fat Staff Survey: from PDF to Tableau, Greg Harris, MIT
- Comments: Anne Laughlin, Director of Assessment in the Graduate School, Cornell
Each presentation should be limited to 15-minutes, leaving several minutes for comments and questions.
1:50-3:00 Tour of Stocking Hall & Ice Cream
3:10-4:10 Sharing Data
- Structuring Tableau as a Shared Resource, Ratna Sarkar, Johns Hopkins
- Oversight of Tableau Server at Duke, David Jamieson-Drake, Duke
- Data Governance, Data Dictionaries & Metadata, Kathleen Dettman, Stanford
- Comments: Greg Menzenski, Office of Data Architecture & Analytics, Cornell
Each presentation should be limited to 15-minutes, leaving several minutes for comments and questions.
4:15-4:55 Space Utilization Data
- Classroom Utilization, Pinjia Liao, Penn
- Classroom Utilization, Deb Fyler, Cornell
- Comments: Mary-Lynn Cummings, Director of Capital & Space Planning, Cornell
Each presentation should be limited to 15-minutes, leaving several minutes for comments and questions.
5:40, 6pm Meet to walk downtown through Cascadilla Gorge (5:40) or bus (6pm)
6:30 Dinner, Coltivare (downtown Ithaca)
Tompkins Cortland Community College’s (TC3) Farm-to-Bistro program gives students hands-on experience in every aspect of the food-production system. TC3 operates its own organic farm that supplies fresh, local produce to Coltivare. Brandon Seager is the chair of the Wine Marketing department at TC3, and has a master’s degree in Enology & Viticulture from Cornell. Guests from TC3 include Kris Altucher, Associate Dean and Director of Institutional Research and Brandon Seager, Professor of Wine Marketing.
Wednesday, June 15 (401 Physical Sciences Building)
8am Breakfast, 401 Physical Sciences Building
Built in 2010, the Physical Sciences Building houses chemistry, physics and applied physics research. The fourth floor offers lovely views of campus.
8:40-9:10 Comments & Discussion
- Report out from Sexual Assault working group
- Other reflections from yesterday
9:15-10:00am Faculty Diversity Data
- Tableau-based quadrant analysis of faculty survey data, Jiali Luo, Duke
- Apples to Apples: CIP Crosswalk for Faculty Profile, Cyndi Langin & John Goldin, Yale
- Comments: Yael Levitte, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity & Development, Cornell
Each presentation should be limited to 15-minutes, leaving several minutes for comments and questions.
10:15-11:15 Student Diversity Data
- Identifying Pockets of URM students, Tim Pavlis, Yale
- Identity and Sexual Assault Prevalence Rates, Lily Svensen, Yale
- Reconciling Surveys & Interviews on Belonging & Diversity, Corrie Potter, Stanford
- Comments: AT Miller, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Diversity Initiatives, Cornell
Each presentation should be limited to 15-minutes, leaving several minutes for comments and questions.
11:30-Noon Organizing for Efficiency
- The IR-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Stacey Lopez, Penn
- Re-Organizing the IRP File Server, William Searle, Cornell
Noon Box lunch discussion
