Kent Lovering Hubbell is the current Dean of Students. He serves as the primary liaison between students and university administration. Dean Hubbell welcomes students' ideas and concerns during office hours, or through email (dean_of_students@cornell.edu), or phone calls to the Dean's "Warmline" (254-DEAN).
Kent L. Hubbell is the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students and Professor of Architecture at Cornell University. He received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree in 1969 from Cornell University, and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture in 1973 from Yale University. In 1969-70 as a Peace Corps Architect he designed and built dispensaries, schools and small hospitals in the atolls of Micronesia.
The offices and programs that he oversees as Dean of Students include: student activities; student support and diversity education; new student programs; LGBT Resource Center; fraternity and sorority affairs; international students and scholars; religious ministries; and the off-campus housing office. He also has oversight over three of Cornell’s most historic buildings: Anabel Taylor Hall; Sage Chapel; and Willard Straight Hall.
Hubbell is a Professor of Architecture at Cornell University where he was the Chairman of the Architecture Department and Nathaniel & Margaret Owings Distinguished Alumni Professor from 1993-1998. For 18 years he was Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and Chairman of the Architecture Program from 1985-93. He taught at Yale where he was Graham Foundation Research Fellow in the Arts, and has been lecturer, juror and critic at numerous schools in the East and Midwest.
Hubbell is a licensed architect and was President of Chrysalis Corp. Architects until 1984 when he formed K.L. Hubbell Inc, Architects. The firms have won numerous awards including a National AIA Honor Award for the Hershman House, Chicago (1981) and various regional AIA honor awards for projects in Michigan and Wisconsin. Hubbell won a Michigan Governor's Award for Design Excellence, has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts, Cornell Council for the Arts and the Rackham Graduate School of the University of Michigan.
Both architectural firms have been especially well known for their work in the area of fabric structures. Hubbell has completed a 5000 seat covered river front theater for Chene Park, Detroit, a Metro Transit Park and Ride facility in Seattle as well as designs for public events facilities in Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Michigan, and Taipei, Taiwan.
From the Dean
"I am truly honored to accept the position of dean of students and look forward to serving the needs of all Cornell students, from first year to dissertation. It will be exciting, full of challenges and intrinsically rewarding. After all, it is working with students, especially Cornell students, that draws us to spend a lifetime in academia."
