Provost Fuchs leading charge to erase Cornell's deficit with 'change and aspiration'
Without a detailed plan of action, Cornell University is facing a projected operating deficit of approximately $150 million within five years. To pre-empt that scenario, President David Skorton has asked Provost Kent Fuchs to lead the charge to erase the deficit and, in his words, to make Cornell a leaner, stronger university by 2014. "I'm determined to drive this effort with a sense of change and aspiration, using our imaginations to think creatively about the future of the institution," Fuchs said in a recent interview.