Anindita Banerjee

Cornell University

Anindita Banerjee, Ph.D.

2024-25 Role: Special Assistant to the Dean for Curriculum & Program Development

Anindita Banerjee will lead in curricular exploration and development in two areas for the part time, online degree in the School of Continuing Education:  the general liberal arts curriculum, and a possible new major in the general area of communications and technology. She will also work with the colleges to identify and realize outstanding courses for the resumption of the residential Precollege program in Summer 2025, and to identify and realize online courses for the National Education Equity Lab (NEEL), with which Cornell partners to bring courses to Title I High Schools across the United States.  Banerjee will work with Arts and Sciences to analyze enrollment patterns in SCE’s Winter and Summer sessions and identify opportunities for growth.  

As a result of this collaborative effort, Banerjee will produce a draft curriculum for the possible new major in the online bachelor’s degree that reaches across colleges and includes as major requirements humanities and social sciences courses of broad appeal; a slate of residential Precollege offerings in Summer 2025 that demonstrates Cornell’s disciplinary breadth and uses the resumption of in-person instruction to incorporate creative opportunities for active learning; new NEEL online course offerings that also have application in SCE’s online bachelor’s degree.  Banerjee will work with SCE leadership to evaluate how well NEEL and Precollege are serving Cornell as pathways for students from underserved communities, and to identify ways of making these programs more effective.

Supervisor: Mary Loeffelholz, Dean, School of Continuing Education, Cornell University

Mentors: Wendy Wolford, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Cornell University; Matthew Rascoff, Vice Provost for Digital Education, Stanford University

In the news: Cornell University: “Banerjee Named Mellon Fellow in Diversity Network”