Primary topics for deep dive:

• Improving our campus culture by identifying educational opportunities, policies and practices to dismantle hate and discrimination 
• Identifying ways to be more proactive in times of crisis
• Dismantling all forms of discrimination, including Islamophobia, Anti-Arab racism, antisemitism, and other forms of bias
• This Task Force is intended to remain active for much longer than the other groups. As a result, it is operating on a slightly different timeline and will host multiple open sessions in the spring semester to ensure everyone has an opportunity to share feedback.

Findings from the task force:

• Expression, Communication, and Governance: Findings from focus groups about life in student residence halls, Spring 2024

Primary topics for deep dive:

• Innovating curricular offerings to adequately prepare students for the demands of our evolving society 
• Exploring the breadth and potential for growth across humanities, social sciences, STEM, and the arts 
• Strengthening opportunities in partnership with Columbia University
• Refining and improving our academic advising systems
• Enhancing post-graduate options for students, and preparing students for a range of post-graduate opportunities 
• Understanding and supporting drivers of student success

Task force membership:

• Leslie Grinage (co-chair)
• Doug Berman (co-chair)
• Linda Bell
• Laurie Postlewate
• Patricia Dennison
• Ellen Morris
• Tatiana Bryant
• Logan Brenner
• Courtney Wheeler
• Elida Martinez-Gaynor
• Meaghan Valenti
• Amanda Dye
• Christina Lopez
• Melissa Wright
• Holly Tedder
• Naja Muhammad
• Swaati Puri
• Meaghan Valenti
• Rebecca Grabiner
• Christine Shin

Primary topics for deep dive:

• Modernizing operational systems and removing reliance on paper
• Centralizing college data
• Streamlining interdepartmental communication
• Standardizing college processes, including onboarding 
• Optimizing interdepartmental collaboration

Task force membership:

• Kelli Murray (chair)
• Sarah Gillman
• Jennifer Fondiller
• David Weiman
• Lisa Gordis
• Mignon Moore
• Abosede George
• Alan Dye
• Michael Miller
• Allison Mayne Peters
• Kyle Krause
• Nathalie Lukas
• John Cornwell
• Anastatia Curley
• Caroline Ray
• Jennifer Simmons
• Cliff Rotbert
• Mark Godwin
• Simone Medley
• Victoria Swann
• Katie Hyon
• Ben Klein
• David Ernst
• Maddie Miley
• Jeff Manning

Primary topics for deep dive:

• Planning for Net Zero
• Upgrading electric and energy systems on campus
• Enhancing institutional waste, recycling, and reuse practices
• Harnessing academic and interdisciplinary sustainability initiatives
• Strengthening proactive facilities planning for climate risks

Task force membership: 

• Sandra Goldmark (co-chair)
• Leslie Raucher (co-chair) 
• Sarah Gillman
• Sandra Goldmark
• Paige West
• Maria Rivera Malucci
• Kadambari Baxi
• Terryann Gmelch
• Patrick Dillon
• Angie Tse
• Preetica Pooni
• Hannah Graham
• Dawn Williams
• Daniel Davis
• David Malterre
• Julian Jones 
   

Primary topics for deep dive:

• Focusing on student mental health and availability of resources
• Increasing health and mental health access and literacy
• Communicating the availability of reproductive health resources on campus; leading and guiding the national conversations around reproductive health resources for college campuses
• Understanding and combating the increasing impacts of technology and social media on student mental health
• Ensuring that students receive medical and psychological care that utilizes a strengths-based, trauma-informed, reproductive justice, gender-affirming framework. 
• Building a college-wide culture of community support centered on multifaceted wellness

Task force membership:

• Marina Catallozzi (chair)
• Laurie Postlewate
• Maria De La Paz Fernandez
• Colleen Thomas-Young
• Nick Bartlett
• Rachel McDermott 
• Hadley Suter
• Sarah Clinchy
• April Autry
• Evelyn Dishaw
• Tanya Bishai
• Kassie Gillis-Harry
• Hilary Purrington
• Virginia Ryan
• Sarah Ann Anderson Burnett
• Aleschia Velasquez
• Jemima Gedeon
• Wendy Garay
• Leticia Lynch
• Julia Cardinal
• Mary Commerford

Primary topics for deep dive:

• Strengthening our care for our infrastructure and facilities
• Planning for the space needs of today and the future
• Identifying opportunities to strengthen and grow student and faculty housing

Task force membership:

• Juan Plasencia (chair)
• Sarah Gillman 
• Leslie Grinage
• Ciaran Escoffery
• Jennifer Fondiller
• Lesley Sharpe
• Jenny Kassanoff
• Brian Mailoux
• Karen Fairbanks
• Lisa Edstrom
• Jennifer Mansfield
• Jeff Manning
• Cynthia Yang
• Ed Barnaby
• Robin Fennell
• Lizeth Ramirez
• Joanne Delgadillo
• Matt Kingston
• Amy Cordero
• Joseph Anthony Matos
• Gonzalo Cervantes
• Darin Patrick
• Rosana Chang

Primary topics for deep dive:

• Understanding the role and opportunities of ChatGPT, generative AI, machine learning, and other technologies in the classroom and in our college operations
• Identifying opportunities to increase institutional efficiencies and data 
• Supporting technology professional development; building technological competence among our community

Task force membership:

• Alex Cooley (chair)  
• Linda Bell
• Kelli Murray
• Greg Bryda
• Kate Turesky
• John Morrison
• Mark Santolucito
• Anthony Colletti
• Persida Hernandez
• Caroline Ray
• Melanie Hibbert
• Mary Laurita
• Victoria Swann
• Robin Peterson
• Nazra Akter
• Joe Dufresne

Primary topics for deep dives: 

• Enhancing recruitment strategies to reflect our commitment to diversity
• Expanding education around, and access to, financial aid
• Facilitating dialogue across difference of opinion or ideas
• Building on access for students with accommodations 
• Ensuring all members feel included and a strong sense of belonging 

Task force membership:

• Nancy Huemer (co-chair)
• Lacey Beck (co-chair)
• Jennifer Fondiller
• Pam Cobrin
• Maja Horn
• Gale Kenny
• Kara Pham
• Evelyn Dishaw
• Jasmin Izquierdo
• Chanae Hodge
• Marie Arohnson
• Alex Pittman
• Ruby Bhattacharya
• Rebecca Sime Nagasawa
• Debbie Braverman
• Valerie Monaco
• Arun Bryson

Primary topics for deep dive: 

• Increasing Connectivity through:
  • On-campus spaces that promote community development
  • Student traditions
  • Opportunities for cross-department relationship building among faculty and staff 
  • Building on alumnae events across the country 
  • Opportunities for alumnae-student engagement
  • Optimizing and streamlining methods of communication
• Fostering Institutional Identity through:
  • Barnard’s connections with our Harlem & Morningside Heights communities 
  • Barnard’s local, state, national, and global identities
  • Branding, public identity of the College
  • The impact of college rankings

Task force membership:

• Katie Germana (chair) 
• Ciaran Escoffery                                
• Jennifer Fondiller
• Lisa Yeh
• Leslie Grinage
• Kelli Murray
• Maria Lozano
• Premilla Nadasen
• Mignon Moore
• Brian Larkin
• Elizabeth Cook
• Cynthia Yang
• Nicole Bourbon 
• Laura Maloney
• Jamiyla Chisolm
• Grace Bradley
• Mary Rocco
• Catlin Michael Wojtkowski
• David Hopson
• Juan Ramos
• Brian Rubenstein-Wexler
• Cody Kirkpatrick

Primary topics for deep dive:

• Increasing resources, including city, state, federal funding, grants, other untapped sources of revenue potentially available to the College
• Evaluating opportunities for increased auxiliary revenue
• Ensuring responsible usage of college resources

This task force is closed to the public.

Task force membership:

• Sarah Gillman (chair)
• Lisa Yeh
• Kelli Murray
• Linda Bell
• Eileen DiBenedetto
• Cliff Rotbert
• Aleschia Velasquez
• Kayla McCaffrey 
• Deby Finkelstein
• A-J Aronstein
• Victoria Lesourd 

Primary topics for deep dives:

• Exploring and highlighting the continued value of women’s liberal arts colleges
• Providing value among the rising costs of higher education
• Identifying strategies to elevate perceptions of Barnard, locally and globally
• Addressing issues of gender in its complexity here at Barnard

Task force membership:

• Anne Higgonet (co-chair)
• Nikki Youngblood-Giles (co-chair)
• Kelli Murray
• Marina Catallozi
• Linda Bell
• Kathleen Veteri
• Jennifer Fondiller
• Peter Balsam
• Chris Baswell
• Karen Sendler
• Katie Germana
• Ed Barnaby
• Virginia Hart 
• Nicole Anderson
• Erica Siegel
• A-J Aronstein
• Lori Holcomb-Holland
• David Malterre
• Christina Lopez