Provost Bala and Senior Vice Provost Nishii are pleased to issue a call for nominations for a house professor-dean in Carl Becker House on West Campus. The appointment will begin July 2028. Faculty members are encouraged to nominate themselves or colleagues. Nominees must be members of the tenured faculty.
Faculty leadership is at the core of the West Campus House System, and its goal is to create an environment that links the residential life of students to the academic mission of the university. The five West Campus houses offer upper-level students unique, faculty-led, living-learning opportunities within their diverse and inclusive communities, and bring together students and faculty in a spirit of inquiry and active citizenship.
Nominations should be sent to Stacy Kesselring, sk866@cornell.edu, by December 11, 2026. The search committee will begin reviewing nominations immediately thereafter. For more information, please visit the following.
Open House for Interested Faculty
Lori Leonard, house professor-dean in Carl Becker House, is offering interested faculty the opportunity to meet with her in her house professor-dean apartment on October 14th or December 2nd at 5:00pm followed by an invitation to join House Dinner at 6:00pm and House programming at 7:15pm. RSVP to Lori at ll536@cornell.edu. Interested faculty can choose to participate in all or part of the evening.
Contact Information
If you have questions about the search, the house professor-dean position, or would like to attend a West Campus house program, you are encouraged to contact Ethan Stephenson, Director of Faculty Living-Learning Programs, evs24@cornell.edu, or any of the current house professors-deans:
- Alice Cook House – Raina Plowright, rkp57@cornell.edu
- Flora Rose House – Sharon Sassler, ss589@cornell.edu
- William Keeton House – Maria Park, mariapark@cornell.edu
- Carl Becker House – Lori Leonard, ll536@cornell.edu
- Hans Bethe House – Christopher Alabi, caa238@cornell.edu