Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University from McGraw Tower
Motto	"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." -Ezra Cornell, 1865[1]
Type	Hybred with 14 colleges and schools, including 4 statutory colleges Land-grant Sea-grant Space-grant Sun grant
Established	1865
Endowment	$5.28 billion[2]
President	TBA
Provost	W. Kent Fuchs
Academic staff	1,639 Ithaca 1,235 New York City 34 Qatar
Students	20,939[3]
Undergraduates	13,935 Ithaca[3]
Postgraduates	7,004 Ithaca[3] 865 New York City 135 Qatar[4]
Location	Ithaca , NY , USA
Campus	Small city, 745 acres (3.0 km²)
Colors	Carnelian, White
Nickname	Big Red
Affiliations	Ivy League, AAU
Mascot	Unofficial mascot is a bear sometimes named "Touchdown"[5]
Website	cornell.edu

Cornell University (pronounced /kɔrˈnɛl/ kor-NEL) is in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions.^[6] Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White co-founded it in 1865 by sponsoring a bill in the New York State Legislature to designate it as New York's land grant college. The university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge–from the classics to the sciences and from the theoretical to the applied. This goal was uncommon in 1865. The goal is stated in Cornell's motto, an 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."^[1] Since its founding, Cornell has also been a co-educational, secular institution where admission is offered irrespective of gender, religion or race.

The university has seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its own admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of two private land grant universities,^{[note 1]} and its seven undergraduate colleges include three state-supported statutory or contract colleges. As a land grant college, it also operates a cooperative extension outreach program in every county of New York.

Cornell counts more than 255,000 living alumni, 31 Marshall Scholars, 28 Rhodes Scholars and 41 Nobel laureates as affiliated with the university.^[4][7][8] It has 13,000 undergraduate and 6,000 graduate students from all 50 states and 122 countries.^[9]

Cornell's athletics teams are called the Big Red, and they have 36 varsity teams. They play against other teams in the Ivy League.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Cornell University Facts: Motto". Cornell University. Retrieved 2006-05-22.
2. ↑ As of May 2011. "Endowment Climbs 19.3 Percent to $5.28 Billion". Cornell Daily Sun. Archived from the original on September 8, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} "Enrollments by College" (PDF). University Registrar. Cornell University. October 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "2009–10 Factbook" (PDF). Cornell University. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
5. ↑ Holmes, Casey (April 30, 2006). "Wild Cornell Mascot Wreaks Havoc". Cornell Daily Sun. Archived from the original on 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
6. ↑ Spitzer, Eliot (September 14, 2005). "Agreements between state agencies and Cornell University to procure academic services from the statutory or contract colleges administered by Cornell should be regarded as contracts between a state party and a non-state party" (PDF). New York State. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
7. ↑ "Cornell Nobel laureates". Cornell News Service. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
8. ↑ "Uncle Ezra". Cornell University. Retrieved 2007-01-10.
9. ↑ "Undergraduate Admissions" (URL). Cornell University. Retrieved 2008-04-06.