Recent Updates
- Progress from the work groups (March 10, 2026)
- Voluntary Retirement Incentive design (March 10, 2026)
- Resilient Cornell timeline (February 24, 2026)
- Resilient Cornell update (February 11, 2026)
Resilient Cornell is a university-wide initiative to ensure Cornell’s long-term financial sustainability while reimagining how we operate across all campuses. Rooted in our core values and mission of teaching, research, and public engagement, this effort calls for bold, collaborative action to preserve institutional excellence and build a stronger future.
This is a truly all-hands-on-deck project: Leaders across academic, administrative, and enterprise units are working strategically to reduce costs and enhance revenue as faculty and staff contribute ideas through town halls, emails, feedback portals, and individual conversations. Two leadership committees are guiding the next phase, focusing on workforce design and cross-campus operations. Their work will be informed by data, campus expertise, and community input, and will reflect the collective ideas and efforts of our full university.
Resilient Cornell is more than a response to financial challenges — it’s a commitment to lasting, mission-driven change.
Committees
Over the course of this fiscal year, two university-wide committees are focusing on bold strategies for reimagining operations, reducing spending, and improving efficiencies by avoiding duplication of work. They’ll do so in ways that recognize and advance our institutional core values and signature strengths and reflect data-driven, community-informed decisions and implementation.
Each committee will include work groups tasked with analyzing functional areas, expense categories, and priority topics.
Provost’s Steering Committee
Improving workforce designs and strategies across the Ithaca, Cornell AgriTech, and Cornell Tech campuses.
Cross-Campus Collaboration Committee
Examining and enhancing university-wide operations that span all campuses, including Weill Cornell Medicine.
Feedback
In carrying out this collective work to define Cornell’s future, the committees will continue to rely upon questions, suggestions, and feedback from faculty and staff. Work groups are forming to consider the most promising ideas. We invite you to share your thoughts through this Qualtrics form or at streamlining@cornell.edu.
