April 1, 2021
Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, has announced he will not seek to renew his five-year term when it ends July 31, 2022.
Beasley is Cornell’s 12th university librarian. He began his term Aug. 1, 2017 after serving for four years as vice provost and chief librarian at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Carla DeMello/Provided
Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian.
“Working here as university librarian with such great people and great collections is truly an honor and a privilege,” Beasley said. “Leaving Cornell at the end of July 2022 would mean fulfilling a plan developed by me and my family a while back to return to Canada after five years.”
March 16, 2021
Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, will be the first recipient of a new Cornell award created in his name to honor successful entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to giving back.
Through his charitable foundation, Feeney has given more than $8 billion to universities and nonprofits around the world, and to global causes focused on human rights, education, health equity, peacemaking and social justice. Shane O Neill
Chuck Feeney, whose Atlantic Philanthropies foundation has given targeted, game-changing support for education, health care, human rights and programs that benefit children and the elderly.
ITHACA NY Cornell University plans to rename one of its main campus roads in honor of Charles F. âChuckâ Feeney â56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the universityâs most generous donor.
Feeney invested nearly $1 billion, mostly anonymously, throughout the university over a period of nearly 40 years. Even after his worldwide philanthropy was revealed in the late 1990s, he still chose not to connect his name in any form to the many institutions he supported. That is why there has never been a space, program, scholarship, professorship or any other entity bearing his name at Cornell.
Now, by renaming East Avenue as Feeney Way, university leaders have found a way to recognize his generous and unprecedented giving across Cornell and â most important to Feeney â inspire future generations of Cornellians to give back to their communities in whatever way they can.