Faculty Positions
Cornell social sciences faculty create new knowledge that helps define their fields and inspire each new generation of students to greater achievement. Strategic efforts to recruit the best faculty are a key university priority as record number of baby-boomer faculty retire.
In the next 5 to 10 years, a surge of retirements will deprive Cornell of up to 600 of its most senior faculty, including many in the social sciences. This means that Cornell must act immediately to assemble the next generation of life-changing teachers and world-changing researchers, and it must do so in an intensely competitive environment. To succeed, Cornell needs substantial new resources to attract and keep professors of the highest caliber.
Types of Support
Senior Professorship: $3 million
A named senior professorship is a mark of great professional distinction that may encourage a star faculty member to remain at Cornell or enable the university to hire a renowned scholar whose presence will solidify the university’s leadership in a specific area of study.
To discuss support for the Social Sciences Initiative, contact Kristen Ford.