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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
File:Cornellcoatofarms.gif
TypeContract
Established1874
DeanSusan A. Henry
Academic staff
386[1]
Undergraduates3,153
Postgraduates936
Location
Ithaca
,
New York
,
USA
Websitewww.cals.cornell.edu

The New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University (CALS) is a contract college of New York and is considered by many to be the top school of agriculture-related sciences in the world. With about 3,100 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students enrolled, it is the third-largest college of its kind in the United States and the second-largest undergraduate college or school at Cornell. It is the only school of agriculture in the Ivy League. The undergraduate business program at CALS is one of the only two such Ivy League programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).[2]

As part of Cornell's land-grant mission, the college jointly administers New York's cooperative extension program with the College of Human Ecology and it runs both the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, in Geneva, New York, and the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, in addition to many other research facilities around the state.[3]

History

Established in 1874 as the Department of Agriculture, the department became a college in 1888. In 1904, eminent botanist and horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey, along with New York State farmers, convinced the New York Legislature to financially support the agriculture college at Cornell, a private university that had been established in 1865 as New York's land-grant institution. Thus, it became a contract college, and changed its name from the College of Agriculture to the New York State College of Agriculture. The name of the college was finally changed to New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1971.[citation needed]Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).6

The World Food Prize has been awarded for the sixth time to a Cornellian. Dr. Andrew Colin McClung, M.S. 1949, was awarded the World Food Prize for helping to transform a large area of Brazil into fertile land. His recommendations regarding key agricultural inputs made this transformation possible.[4]

The Agriculture Quadrangle

Agriculture Quad viewed from Bradfield Hall, Ithaca's West Hill and Cayuga Lake in the background

The Agriculture Quadrangle (Ag Quad) contains buildings which house many of the programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. It is a quadrangle east of the Arts Quad and west of the College of Veterinary Medicine. The oldest building still standing on the quad is Caldwell Hall, opened in 1913. The Plant Science Building opened in 1931 and Warren Hall, across from Plant Science, opened in the next year, The art deco style Mann Library on the eastern end of the quad, connecting Warren Hall on the north to the Plant Sciences Building on the south, opened in 1952. Completed in 1990, Kennedy and Roberts Halls, featuring an archway that connects the two halls, extend along the western face of the quad, having replaced the original Roberts Hall (1906). The Computing and Communications Center stands between Roberts and Caldwell Halls.[citation needed]

Academics

The undergraduate programs lead to the Bachelor of Science in at least one of the 23 currently offered majors. The college also offers graduate degrees in various field of study through the Graduate School, including the M.A.T., M.L.A., M.P.S., M.S., and Ph.D.

The departments within the college are:

  • Animal Science
  • Applied Economics and Management
  • Biochemistry
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering (with the College of Engineering)
  • Biometry and Statistics
  • Communication
  • Crop and Soil Sciences
  • Development Sociology
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (with the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences)
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Education
  • Entomology
  • Food Science
  • Horticulture
  • International Agriculture and Rural Development
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Natural Resources
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics
  • Plant Pathology

Undergraduate Business

The Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) at Cornell offers one undergraduate major — Applied Economics and Management. This is Cornell's undergraduate busines program. Notably, the department is a part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The department is one of only two undergraduate business programs in the Ivy League accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). U.S. News & World Report ranked AEM's business program #12 in its 2006 rankings of top undergraduate business programs.[5]

Specializations

Students in the AEM major may specialize in one of three areas: Business (General Management), Agribusiness, and Applied Economics. AEM's two Business specializations—Business and Food Industry Management — provide a flexible curriculum that is grounded in the liberal arts, yet focused on the practical, real world of business.[5] The two Agribusiness specializations—Farm Business Management and Finance and Agribusiness Management—draw on the general business curriculum as well as their own specialized courses for students interested in careers in the agricultural and food sector, which is one of the largest sectors of the global economy.[5] The two Applied Economics specializations—Environmental and Resource Economics and Agricultural and Applied Economics — give students strong training in economic theory and methods, with specialized coursework oriented towards the environment, natural resources, agriculture, and other applied areas that lead to careers in the public sector, academia, and the private sector.[5]

Profile

The AEM program had 86 incoming freshmen in Fall 2006. The overall admit rate was 16% and the yield was 64%. The median SAT score was 1360. In 2005, the average starting salary for graduates of the program was $50,000, and the top employment fields (and number of students per field) were Banking/Financial Services (43), Consulting (11), Marketing (7), Accounting/Auditing (6), Management (6), Communication (5), Ag. Business (Banking/Financial Services/Sales/Management/Marketing) (4), Education (Teaching/Administrative/Support Services) (4), Real Estate (3), Sales (3), and Brokerage/Trading (3).[citation needed]

References

5.

  1. ^ http://www.dpb.cornell.edu/F_Factbook.htm
  2. ^ http://aem.cornell.edu/news/index.htm
  3. ^ http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/public/facilities.cfm
  4. ^ http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June06/World.Food.prize.ssl.html
  5. ^ a b c d http://aem.cornell.edu

6.http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/about/overview/index.cfm


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