October 2, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Eastern)
What does the national conversation about trust in higher education ask of faculty? The Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network opens its 2026-27 program with a symposium that puts several of the reports on trust and the future of the university into conversation with one another to arrive at something practical: what sense faculty can make of these narratives and what they can do in their own departments, centers, and institutes.
What You Will Learn
A plain-language read on the reports from AAC&U and Yale, and forthcoming from Cornell
Why faculty — not just presidents and boards — are central to rebuilding trust inside a university
Concrete moves a chair or director can make in their department, center, or institute
How to translate the national debate over trust into a next step at your institution
A shared vocabulary for raising trust and transparency with colleagues, deans, and staff
SYMPOSIUM CONTRIBUTORS
Laurie Patton, Ph.D., President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Praveen Sethupathy, Ph.D., Professor of Physiological Genomics; Chair, Biomedical and Translational Sciences, Cornell University
Jeremy Young, Ph.D., Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, American Association of Colleges & Universities
Holden Thorp, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Science Family of Journals
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Dialogues for Ivy+ faculty who want to understand how their universities work and the roles faculty can play in helping them work better.