With an $11 million gift from Lisa Baker and Richard Baker ’88, Cornell’s real estate program will hire additional faculty and create a more robust curriculum in an effort to become one of the nation’s top-tier programs, according to John Siliciano ’75, senior vice provost for academic affairs.

Brian Beeners, tech shop supervisor in AAP, has been offered a reduced job after his layoff prompted outrage from students in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

In response to student protests, Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning Kent Kleinman said he will consider rehiring Brian Beeners, an AAP tech shop supervisor who Kleinman laid off Thursday.

As the overhaul of the Cornell Council for the Arts continues to draw opposition, the University launched a search for a new CCA director Thursday to oversee the transformation of the organization’s mission.

The National Architecture Accreditation Board accredited both the Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture programs in July.

Yesterday approximately 25 faculty members and graduate students gathered in the Guerlac room of the A.D. White House to consider ways to improve interdepartmental collaboration by bridging gaps between related fields of study at the University.