The School of Hotel Administration (SHA)
Let’s focus on something positive to end this week… like our Hotel School, which is consistently ranked the best in the world nearly any way you slice it. # of mailable, living alumni: 10,100 % engaged as of today (donors, volunteers, and/or event attendees): 36 (Cornell overall is 30%) # regional alumni chapters: 60 # [...]
Alumni Engagement Indexes by College – FY ’13, YTD
It’s mid-way through the fiscal year…let’s see how we’re doing with alumni engagement. The Alumni Engagement Index is defined thusly: (Event attendees + Volunteers + Donors/Duespayers) / Number of mailable, living alumni and non-degreed These are unique, meaning that if you attend 13 events, volunteer for 4 organizations and give 6 times, you still only [...]
Big Red Hockey
The Ice 55: Age of Lynah Rink; previous home games were played on Beebe Lake…when it froze 4,267: Number of seats in the rink 72: Percentage of games won at Lynah Women’s 40: Years Women’s Hockey has existed at Cornell University 2: ECAC Tournament Championships 11: Ivy League Championships 2: Players who became Olympians Men’s [...]
College of Veterinary Medicine
Rank among veterinary colleges in the nation by USNWR since 2000: #1 Vet school campus-size rank: #1, spanning 15 acres or 138 NCAA basketball courts Number of vet schools in the country: 28 Annual budget: $126 million. NY State provides 23%, sales and services provide 23%, gifts and endowment ($145 million) earnings provide 9%, and [...]
Big Red Apples at Cornell
Inspired by this weekend’s Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival on the Commons, today’s post is all about apples. Cornell’s apple breeding program is one of the largest and best in the world. And New York State is the second-highest apple producer in the country. 66: Apple varieties introduced by Cornell (among them Cortland, Empire, Jonagold, and [...]
Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassadors Network
CAAAN assists the admissions office by meeting with local candidates to answer questions, provide a positive perspective on the University, and accumulate additional information about the applicants. They then share the information with admissions in a post-meeting report. Here are some stats about CAAAN’s 2012 accomplishments: Number of CAAAN volunteers: 9,500 alumni from 50 states and [...]
Cornell Entrepreneurialism
During the past 5 years, Cornell entrepreneurs have launched 2,600 companies employing 34,000 people and raising $10.6 billion in new capital. All 7 undergraduate schools, plus Law and Johnson, work with Entrepreneurship@Cornell to offer at least 167 courses on starting and/or growing your own business. 50 students a year get paid internships through Entrepreneurship@Cornell’s summer [...]
Fore! Cornell Golf Designers
There are at least 3 famous golf course designers who were educated at Cornell. Of course (pun intended) we all know about Robert Trent Jones ’30, who died in 2000 at age of 94. ‘After designing Cornell’s links, he went on to design 500+ golf courses in at least 40 US States and 35 other countries. Landscape [...]
Studiers Abroad
The Cornell Abroad program coordinates and supports undergraduate students who wish to spend a semester or a year studying at an accredited international university. Students going abroad each year: 500 (about 4% of undergraduate population) Countries: 40 (about 20% of all countries) Cornellians who have studied abroad since 1985: ~10,000 Minimum GPA required: 3.0 Credits [...]
Cornell Plantations
On this beautiful spring day, it’s apropos to profile the Cornell Plantations. Here’s the breadth of Plantation’s land: Botanical Gardens: 25 acres F. R. Newman Arboretum: 150 acres Gardens on central campus: 4 Horticultural collections: 7,000+ accessioned plants, trees, and shrubs, representing 2,000+ species. Natural Areas: 4,000+ acres — among the 5 largest systems of preserves [...]
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