The next Employee-Elected Trustee election will be held in Spring 2028.

The staff community directly elects an Employee-Elected Trustee every four years to serve as a full voting member on Cornell's Board of Trustees. To be eligible, prospective candidates must: 

• Be a regular, full-time employee of Cornell in non-exempt, exempt, or academic non-professorial staff categories (i.e., excluding all members of the University Faculty permitted to vote for a faculty-elected Trustee pursuant to the first paragraph of Article XIII, Section 1 of the Cornell By-laws)
• Employed at the Ithaca, Geneva, or Cornell Tech NYC campuses
• Will intend to remain employed at Cornell for the duration of the Employee-Elected Trustee’s term (2024–2028)

Candidates must confirm with their supervisors that their employment at Cornell extends through the end of the proposed four-year term, either because (a) they are “at-will” employees or (b) their contract has an end-date beyond such term. Candidates must also confirm with their supervisors that, should they be elected, their work obligations will be sufficiently flexible to allow them to fulfill their Trustee obligations.

Please review the categories of employees who are not eligible to be candidates in the CCCET Procedures (§III.5.c, page 2). If you are unsure of your eligibility, please contact the Office of the Assemblies via email at trustee-elections@cornell.edu.