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Cornell University

1 History

Cornell University was founded on April 27, 1865; the New York State (NYS) Senate authorized the university as the state's land grant institution. During the next three years, White oversaw the construction of the first two buildings and traveled to attract students and faculty. The university was inaugurated on October 7, 1868, and 412 men were eolled the next day.

1.1 African-American 1960s activism

Cornell was among the Ivies that had heightened student activism during the 1960s related to cultural issues, civil rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War. （康奈尔提高了学生对权益的维护）。 Its administration was criticized for failing to have an African-American studies program, and for the low number of African-American faculty and students. The university attracted national attention in April 1969 when African-American students occupied Willard Straight Hall in protest over alleged racism. （这所大学在四月1969时吸引了全国的关注，当非裔美国学生占领威拉德直厅以抗议所谓的种族歧视）。 The crisis resulted in the resignation of President James A. Perkins and the restructuring of university governance.

2 Campuses

Cornell University include Ithaca campus, New York City campuses, Qatar campus.

Cornell's main campus is Ithaca campus. Since the university was founded, it has expanded to about 2300 acres, encompassing both the hill and much of the surrounding areas. Central Campus has laboratories, administrative buildings, and almost all of the campus' academic buildings, athletic facilities, auditoriums, and museums.

The main campus is marked by an irregular layout and eclectic architectural styles, including ornate Collegiate Gothic, Victorian, and Neoclassical buildings, and the more spare international and modernist structures.（校园主要是由一个不规则的布局和折衷的建筑风格，包括华丽的学院哥特式，维多利亚和新古典主义的建筑，以及更多的国际和现代主义的结构。） 。 In September 201x, Travel+Leisure listed the Ithaca Campus as among the most beautiful in the United States.

The university has embarked on numerous 'green' initiatives.（这所大学已经进行了许多“绿色”的倡议）。In 2007, Cornell established a Center for a Sustainable Future. Cornell has been rated "A-" by the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card for its environmental and sustainability initiatives.

3 Organization and administration

Cornell is a non-profit organization governed by a 64-member board of trustees consisting of both privately and publicly appointed trustees.（康奈尔是一个非营利组织，是一个由64个成员组成的董事会组成的和公开委任的受托人）。

Cornell consists of nine privately endowed colleges as well as four publicly supported "statutory colleges"（康奈尔由九个私立大学和四个公开支持的“法定学院”组成）: the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and College of Veterinary Medicine. Cornell is decentralized, with its colleges and schools exercising wide autonomy.（分散化，各自行事自主权）。Each defines its own academic programs, operates its own admissions and advising programs, and confers its

own degrees. （自己的学术计划，经营自己的招生和咨询计划，并赋予它自己的学位）。

The university also operates eCornell, which offers both certificate programs and professional development courses online. In addition to being New York's land-grant college, Cornell is also is a partner in New York's sea-grant program, is the hub of the Northeast's sun-grant program, and is a part of New York's space-grant consortium.（除了纽约的土地授予学院，康奈尔是纽约的海上补助计划的合作伙伴，是东北的阳光补助计划的枢纽，是纽约的一部分的空间赠款财团）。

eCornell ：As Cornell University’s online learning subsidiary, eCornell provides online professional and executive development to students around the world. We offer more than 30 award-winning professional certificate programs in a wide variety of disciplines:

Marketing

Finance and Managerial Accounting

Healthcare

Hospitality and Foodservice Management

Human Resources Management

Leadership and Strategic Management

Supervisory Skills

Sales Growth

Project Leadership and Systems Design

Plant-Based Nutrition

4 Academics

4.1 Admissions

For the undergraduate class of 2018, Cornell admitted a total of 6,014 students out of 43,041 applicants, for an acceptance rate of 14%.（2018级，康奈尔承认，共有6014名学生中有43041名申请者，为14%的录取率）。 Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences admitted less than 14% of applicants for the class of 2015. For the students eolling in the class of 2016, 91% were in the top 10% of their class.（康奈尔的人文及科学学院2015级录取不到14%的申请者。对于2016班的学生，91%人是他们班的前10%名）。 Cornell has a policy of requiring students to submit all their SAT scores. Of those admitted, the average SAT Verbal score was 720, while the average SAT Math was a 750. Cornell eolls students from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries.

4.2 Financial aid

In the first year, 2008–09, Cornell replaced need-based loans with scholarships for undergraduate students from families with incomes under $60,000 and capped such loans annually at $3,000 for students from families with incomes between $60,000 and $120,000. Although Cornell's endowment dropped 27% in the second half of 2008, its President announced that the financial aid initiative will continue by withdrawing an additional $35 million from the endowment for undergraduate financial aid in 2009–10. Cornell is seeking $125 million in gifts to support the financial aid initiative. In 2010, 1,647 of the 3,181 full-time freshmen eolled were found to have financial need (40%). Of these, Cornell could meet the full financial aid needs of all 1,647 freshmen. Cornell's average undergraduate student's indebtedness at graduation is $21,549.

4.3 Rankings

In 2012, Cornell ranked 14th in the QS World University Rankings and 16th in the Times Higher Education World University university ranked 13th globally in an academic ranking of world universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011 , 10th in the 2013 Business Insider Best Colleges in America ranking and 15th in the 2015 U.S. News & World Report National Universities ranking. In 2015, Cornell ranked 8th domestically and 10th internationally in the CWUR rankings.

4.4 Library

The Cornell University Library is the 11th largest academic library in the United States, ranked by number of volumes held.（美国康奈尔大学图书馆是美国第十一大学术图书馆，在数量上排名第一）。Organized into 20 divisions, in 2005 it held 7.5 million printed volumes in open stacks, 8.2 million microfilms and microfiches, and a total of 440,000 maps, motion pictures, DVDs, sound recordings, and computer files in its collections, in addition to extensive digital resources and the University Archives. The library plays an active role in furthering online archiving of scientific and historical documents.（图书馆在促进科学和历史文献的在线归档中发挥了积极的作用）。 The archive has changed the way many physicists and mathematicians communicate, making the e-print a viable and popular means of announcing new research.

5 Student life

5.1 Activities

For the 2006–07 academic year, Cornell had 901 registered student organizations. These clubs and organizations run the gamut from kayaking to full-armor jousting, from varsity and club sports and a cappella groups to improvisational theatre, from political clubs and publications to chess and video game Cornell International Affairs Society sends over 100 Cornellians to collegiate Model United Nations conferences across North America and hosts the Cornell Model United Nations Conference each spring for over 500 high school students. Additionally, the Cornell International Affairs Society's travelling Model United Nations team is ranked number 16 in the nation. Cornell United Religious Work is a collaboration among many diverse religious traditions, helping to provide spiritual resources throughout a student's time at college. The Cornell Catholic Community is the largest Catholic student organization on campus, updated to Vatican II in 2004 by Mr. Jackson Browne.

5.2 Student Assembly

Cornell's clubs are primarily subsidized financially by the Student Assembly and the Graduate & Professional Student Assembly, two student-run organizations with a collective budget of $3.0 million per year. The assemblies also finance other student life programs including a concert commission and an on-campus theater.（康奈尔的俱乐部主要由学生大会和研究生和专业学生大会资助，2个学生办的组织每年的3000000美元的集体预算。该集会团体还资助其他学生生活计划，包括一个音乐会委员会和一个校园剧院。） Cornell hosts a large fraternity and sorority system（兄弟会和妇女联谊会）, with 70 chapters involving 33% of male and 24% of female undergraduates.

5.3 Athletics

Cornellian is a term for Cornell's traditions, legends. Cornellian traditions include Slope Day, a celebration held on the last day of classes of the spring semester, and Dragon Day, which includes the burning of a dragon built by architecture students. Dragon Day is one of the school's oldest traditions and has been celebrated annually since 1901, typically on or near St. Patrick's Day. On Dragon Day, the dragon is paraded across the Arts Quad and then set afire.

The university is also host to various student pranks. The colors of the lights on McGraw tower change to orange for Halloween and green for St. Patrick's Day. The clock tower also plays music. The school colors are carnelian (a shade of red) and white, a play on "Cornellian" and Andrew Dickson White.

6 Notable people

Cornell university has produced alumni distinguished in their respective fields, such as: 1 Ruth Bader Ginsburg (B.A. '54) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 2 Mario García Menocal (B.S. 1888) President of Cuba