Cornell University
Employment Office:
337 Pine Tree Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Employees: 14,000
President: David Skorton
Website: http://www.cornell.edu
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Cornell is one of the top universities
in the country and located in rural Ithaca, NY, one hour southwest
of Syracuse.
Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew
Dickson White, Cornell is a member of the prestigious Ivy League.
It is a unique university featuring a blend of four private and
three public-supported colleges. As New York's land-grant university,
Cornell has state supported undergraduate schools in: Agriculture
& Life Sciences, Human Economics, Industrial & Labor
Relations. The four private colleges are: Architecture &
Planning, Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Hotel Management.
The Ithaca campus is made up of 260 buildings
on 745 acres.
Tuition at Cornell's private colleges for 2009-10 is $37,954 per year. At the publicly-supported colleges, tuition is $21,814 per year for NY state residents and $37,954 for out-of-state-residents.
Cornell also has graduate schools in business,
law and veterinary medicine in Ithaca. The Weill Cornell Graduate
School of Medicine is located in New York City and Doha, Qatar.
For 2007-08, the number of employees at Cornell includes 2,906 faculty and 11,504 staff members which also includes the medical school in NY and Qatar. There were 19,639 graduate and undergraduate students in Ithaca and 1,033 medical students in New York City in 2007.
The university has instituted a hiring freeze since 2008 for non-professorial positions. It has offered early retirement and layoffs for up to 1,300 employees. Opportunities that are critical to the university are still being filled.
Benefits
Benefits vary for non-academic and academic
staff as well as endowed and non-endowed colleges. Complete benefit
information for employees can be seen here.
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