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Cornell is a private institution, receiving most of its funding through tuition, research grants, and alumni contributions. Three of its undergraduate colleges as well as the graduate veterinary school, called statutory colleges, also receive partial funding from the state of New York to support their research and service mission in niche fields.
Cornell is highly decentralized; its colleges and schools have wide autonomy. Each defines its own academic programs, organizes its own admissions and advising programs, and confers its own degrees; the only university-wide requirement for a baccalaureate degree is to pass a swimming test. Periodically, the university attempts to resolve naturally arising redundancies by creating special interschool units (see #Other_units below). While students may take courses offered by the division, their enrollment remains with their individual college or school.
Seven schools offer undergraduate programs. Students pursuing graduate degrees in departments of these schools are enrolled in the Cornell University Graduate School . In addition, there are six units offering graduate and professional programs.
All of Cornell's graduate and professional schools are endowed, except for the statutory veterinary school.
The Cornell University Library consists of twenty units. It is one of the largest academic research libraries in the United States, with over 7 million volumes, 7 million microforms, 5,000 computer files, and some 76,000 sound recordings in its collections in addition to extensive digital resources and the University Archives. It was the first among all U.S. colleges and universities to allow undergraduates to borrow books from its libraries.
Cornell University Press, established 1869, was the first university publishing enterprise in the United States and is one of the country's largest university presses. It produces approximately 150 titles each year in various disciplines including anthropology, classics, cultural studies, history, literary criticism and theory, medieval studies, philosophy, politics and international relations, psychology and psychiatry, and women's studies.
| President | Life | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Dickson White | 1832–1918 | 1866–1885 |
| Charles Kendall Adams | 1856–1902 | 1885–1892 |
| Jacob Gould Schurman | 1854–1942 | 1892–1920 |
| Livingston Farrand | 1867–1939 | 1921–1937 |
| Edmund Ezra Day | 1883–1951 | 1937–1949 |
| Deane Waldo Malott | 1898–1996 | 1951–1963 |
| James A. Perkins | 1911–1998 | 1963–1969 |
| Dale R. Corson | b. 1914 | 1969–1977 |
| Frank H.T. Rhodes | b. 1926 | 1977–1995 |
| Hunter R. Rawlings III | b. 1944 | 1995–2003 |
| Jeffrey Sean Lehman | b. 1956 | 2003- |
Cornell is considered one of the most diverse campuses in the nation. There are more than 500 registered student organizations, running the interest gamut from kayaking to full-armor jousting, from gospel choirs and a capella groups like the Cayuga's Waiters, improvisational theatre and political clubs and publications. Cornell also boasts one of the largest fraternity and sorority systems in North America, with over 60 chapters involving up to a third of the student body.
The number of organizations is large, and can cater to any interests and tastes. University funding is very helpful in supporting the activities of organizations. However, the ability to socialize with numerous people of a particular interest does not necessarily breed inter-communication between groups. Criticism of this phenomenon in the numerous ethnic/religious based groups is acute.
Housing is divided into three sections: West Campus, Collegetown and North Campus. West Campus houses mostly transfer and returning students, whereas North Campus is almost entirely populated by freshmen. This is the result of President Hunter R. Rawlings III's North Campus Housing initative [1]. The only options for living on North Campus for upper classmen are the program houses, like the Holland International Living Center and Balch all-women dormitory.
Completion of the North Campus housing initiative in Fall 2001, which included the addition of two large dormitories, has created a disparity in non-program-non-co-op housing, resulting in 671 freshmen unable to find standard housing after their freshman year [2]. Apartments are available in the city and surrounding towns of Ithaca, which is actual area of the city located within walking distance of Cornell up the "East Hill" of Ithaca.
There is a residential college project under construction on West Campus, spearheaded by the completion of Alice H. Cook House in 2004. Completion of the five-"House" "residential college" campus will occur in 2010 [3]. The campus dining services have been rated as one of the top college dining services many times in recent years.
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