Residential Initiative Executive Group

The Residential Initiative Executive Group is charged with implementing the president's seven-point plan, and is responsible for leading and managing the project to successful completion. The RIEG reviews and assesses project plans and deliverables, and makes recommendations on project scope, use of resources, and time frame for implementation. These recommendations are presented to the president, provost, senior vice president, executive budget group, capital facilities and planning committee, and board of trustees, who will make final decisions in relation to other university priorities and use of resources, both internal and external.

Residential Initiative Executive Group Members

Carolyn N. Ainslie, Vice President for Planning and Budget
Stephen T. Golding, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration
Edna R. Dugan, Assistant Vice-President/Finance & Administration, Student and Academic Services
Kent Hubbell, Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students
Peter Karp, University Architect
Michelle Moody-Adams, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Susan H. Murphy (Chair), Vice President for Student and Academic Service
LeNorman J. Strong, Assistant Vice President, Student and Academic Services
John A. Kiefer, Director, Planning Design and Construction
M. J. MacAnanny, Student and Academic Services/Campus Life Project Leader
Andrew L. Magre, AIA, Senior Project Manager, Planning Design and Construction

Project Co-Leaders

John A. Kiefer, Facilities Services Project Leader
M. J. MacAnanny, Student and Academic Services/Campus Life Project Leader

The Facilities Services Project Co-Leader (John A. Kiefer) is responsible for delivering programmatically-sound, facilities-related projects on time and under budget. This is accomplished by coordinating and directing the architectural and design teams, as well as the contractors who construct the project.

The Student and Academic Services/Campus Life Project Co-Leader (M. J. MacAnanny) is responsible for assuring that the program, design, and facilities meet the needs of a diverse group of stakeholders, ranging from the building's operating staff to visiting faculty to, ultimately, the students.

West Campus Council

The West Campus Council's primary responsibility is implementing the recommendations of the report "Transforming West Campus." These involve: instituting a post-freshman year living environment on West Campus that has faculty leadership as its most important principle; redesigning and/or construction of a house system which has appropriate facilities for encouraging social and intellectual interaction among the diverse members of the Cornell community, such as living quarters for faculty, staff including graduate student fellows, a community dining area, and seminar rooms; recruiting distinguished Cornell faculty to participate as live-in House Professors or in other important roles; and developing diverse models for formal and informal academic programs.

West Campus Council Members

Shaffique Adam, Graduate Student
Andrew H. Bass, Professor, Section of Neurobiology and Behavior
Ross Brann, Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Milton R. Knovitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies
Raymond A. Dalton, Executive Director, Office of Minority Educational Affairs
Doris Davis, Associate Provost, Admissions and Enrollment Office
Edna R. Dugan, Co-chair, West Campus Council and Assistant Vice President, Student and Academic Services
Ann-Margaret Esnard, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
Hanoch Feit, Student
Jennifer L. Gerner, Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Salah Hassan, Associate Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center
Cynthia Hazan, Associate Professor, Department of Human Development
Timothy R. Hinkin, Professor, School of Hotel Administration
Kent L. Hubbell, Dean of Students
Michelle Moody-Adams, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Tim Lim, Student Assembly
Michael Milgroom, Professor, Plant Pathology
Susan Murphy, Vice President, Student and Academic Services
Jean E. Reese, Assistant Dean, Alice Cook House
Susan Riley, Interim Director, Community Development
Nick Salvatore, Professor, American Studies and Industrial and Labor Relations
LeNorman J. Strong, Assistant Vice President, Student and Academic Services
Scott Toussaint, Student
Sabeen Virani, Alice Cook House Student Advisor
Zellman Warhaft, Professor, Mechanical and Areo Engineering

West Campus Project Team

The West Campus Project Team is responsible for establishing an overall plan for location and scope of West Campus Residential Initiative project elements such as new construction, renovations, landscaping, circulation and parking.

West Campus Project Team Members

John Kiefer, Facilities Project Leader, Residential Initiative; Associate Director, Planning ,Design and Construction
M. J. MacAnanny, Student and Academic Services/Campus Life Project Leader
Peter Karp, University Architect
Edna Dugan, Assistant Vice President/Finance and Administration, Student and Academic Services
Michelle Moody-Adams, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Colleen Wright-Riva, Director of Dining & Retail Services
Paula Amols, Project Manager, Campus Life Dining
LeNorman Strong, Assistant Vice President, Student and Academic Services
Andrew Magre, AIA, Senior Project Manager, Planning, Design & Construction
Andrea Dutcher, Director of Recreation Services
Kellie Page, Associate Director of Campus Life; Director of Business Services
Susan Riley, Interim Director of Community Development
Richard Anderson, General Manager of West Campus and Retail Services
Dale Walter, General Manager of Facilities
Donald Sevey, Direcor of Campus Life Information Technologies
Leslie Sadler, Assistant Director of Faculty and Special Programs
Barbara Romano, Interim Director of Residential, Community Center, and Event Services
Ross Brann, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Department Chair, Near Eastern Studies
Ann-Margaret Esnard, Assistant Professor Department of City and Regional Planning
Cynthia Hazan, Associate Professor of Department of Human Development
Kent Hubbell, Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students
Nick Salvatore, Professor of Collective Bargaining, Labor Law and Labor History
Gary Kenney, Purchasing Manager, Campus Life Business Services
Art Fives, Project Construction Manager, Planning, Design & Construction