Former USC School of Architecture Dean (2017–22) Milton S.F. Curry will be joining Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) as its new Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement and Professor of Architecture. 

Curry's new position began on July 1, 2023, according to Cornell AAP, and will bring him into contact with the university community and broader public through a range of new initiatives that include the launch of the school’s social justice-focused Black Cities Americas Lab.

During his five-year tenure as Dean at USC, Curry had a list of accomplishments that includes the school’s acquisition of the once-lost Paul Revere Williams archive and shifted educational emphasis towards including academic theories of architecture across the curriculum. He will come to the AAP will similar past experience as the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning's former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives of seven years. 

Curry's involvement at the school dates back to his undergraduate days in Ithaca and includes service as both an Assistant and Associate Professor between 1995 and 2010. 

In January 2023, Archinect reported on Curry's latest endeavor as the founding editor of CriticalProductive, a new triannual publication from MIT Press that features a cross-disciplinary focus on the “intellectual project of culture, arts, and architecture.”

His statements in past news coverage pertaining to the new initiatives he intends to pursue while at Cornell echo comments included in a 2020 schoolwide letter after the death of George Flloyd, wherein he wrote: “We see architects as citizens with a unique set of skills to enable the co-creation of new knowledge and action, amongst and between students, faculty and communities. Collectively, we too are the guardians of the democratic space and civic imaginations that breathe life into the consciousness of persons of all races, ethnicities, and identities.”

The AAP's current Dean, Meejin Yoon, was reappointed to a second term in 2022 through the fall semester of 2028 following her own program of “dramatic institutional change” that began at the start of 2019.