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The university was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational and nonsectarian institution. As of fall 2023, the student body included over 16,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate students from all 50 U.S. states and 130 countries. [ 7]
Ruth McVey (Ph.D. 1961) – co-author, Cornell Paper. Suzanne Mettler (Ph.D. 1994) – political scientist and author. Lee Poh Ping (Ph.D. 1974) - political scientist at the University of Malaya; prominent contributor to the field of international relations and Japanese studies in Malaysia.
A History of Cornell. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-0036-8. "History of the Cornell Presidency". Cornell University. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Downs, Donald Alexander (1999). Cornell '69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3653-2. online; Kammen, Carol (2003).
The Cornell University Department of History is an academic department in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University that focuses on the study of history.Founded in 1868, it is one of Cornell's original departments and has been a center for the development of professional historical research institutions in the United States, including the American Historical Association and the ...
The Cornell Big Red Marching Band plays a concert in front of the Cornell Club at the finish of the 2018 Sy Katz Parade. In 1889, the first Cornell Club was formed by Cornell University graduates. The current 14-story clubhouse located in midtown Manhattan at 6 East 44th Street was formerly the offices of the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company.
1. Andrew Dickson White. (1832–1918) [ 1] 1866 – 1885. (19 years) A.B., Yale College (1853) M.A., Yale College. White was the co-founder of Cornell University, along with Ezra Cornell, and introduced the bill in the New York State Senate establishing Cornell University.
The Cornell University Library is the library system of Cornell University. As of 2014, it holds over eight million printed volumes and over a million ebooks. More than 90 percent of its current 120,000 periodical titles are available online. It has 8.5 million microfilms and microfiches, more than 71,000 cubic feet (2,000 m 3) of manuscripts ...
In 1997, Cornell's president, Hunter Rawlings, reaffirmed the Board of Trustees' commitment to the Cornell University Residence Plan of 1966. [95] The current CURP ’66 was created from an existing University leasing system dating to the 1881 decision by Andrew Dickson White to favor fraternities over dormitories. White thought fraternities ...