Watch: Insights from Finance, IT, and MarComm work group leaders
March 17, 2026
Resilient Cornell overview
L. Rebecca Hann, vice president for budget and planning, provides an overview of the financial challenges facing Cornell and the goals, approach, and structure of the university’s response. She also previews the core-common-unique framework the Provost’s Steering Committee work groups are applying to their work.
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. We invite you to share your thoughts through this Qualtrics form, at streamlining@cornell.edu, or at work group-specific email addresses provided below.
Information Technology
Ben Maddox, chief information officer and co-chair of the Information Technology Work Group, shares the case for IT transformation at Cornell, the principles guiding the approach, and the new conceptual model developed by the work group. Provide feedback at resilient-it@cornell.edu.
Marketing and Communications
Kyle Kimball, vice president for university relations and co-chair of the Marketing and Communications Work Group, describes the highly distributed current state of marketing and communication work at Cornell and shares the work group’s new conceptual model. Provide feedback at resilient-marcomm@cornell.edu.
Finance and General Administration
L. Rebecca Hann, vice president for budget and planning and co-chair of the Finance and General Administration Work Group, shares the case for budget office transformation, the strategies the office will deploy, and the new conceptual model developed by the work group.