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Cornell University is a private Ivy League and statutory land-grant research university, based in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, it has consistently been ranked among the top universities in the world by major educational publications.
Cornell was founded with the intention to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell’s founding principle, a popular 1868 quotation from founder Ezra Cornell: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”
The university is organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its specific admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers two satellite campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar.
Cornell is one of the few private land grant universities in the United States. Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York (SUNY) system, including its agricultural and human ecology colleges as well as its industrial labor relations school. Of Cornell’s graduate schools, only the veterinary college is state-supported. As a land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension outreach program in every county of New York and receives annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is much larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens (more than 4,300 acres) and the numerous university-owned lands in New York City are considered.
Alumni and affiliates of Cornell have reached many notable and influential positions in politics, media, and science. As of September 2021, 61 Nobel laureates, four Turing Award winners and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Cornell. Cornell counts more than 250,000 living alumni, and its former and present faculty and alumni include 34 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 63 Olympic Medalists, 10 current Fortune 500 CEOs, and 35 billionaire alumni. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The student body consists of more than 15,000 undergraduate and 9,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 119 countries.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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- BORN 1911: VAUGHN MONROE (SINGER & BANDLEADER)
- 1916: GEORGIA TECH DEFEATED CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY IN FOOTBALL 222-0
- BORN 1916: WALT WHITMAN ROSTOW (GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL)
- BORN 1917: JUNE ALLYSON (ACTRESS)
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- BORN 1931: DESMOND MPILO TUTU (SOUTH AFRICAN ARCHBISHOP, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER)
- BORN 1934: LEROI JONES (POET)
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- 1950: FRANK SINATRA’S FIRST TV SHOW DEBUTED
- BORN 1951: JOHN MELLENCAMP (SINGER)
- BORN 1955: YO-YO MA (CELLIST)
- BORN 1957: JAYNE TORVILL (FIGURE SKATER, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST; PARTNER WAS CHRISTOPHER DEAN)
- DIED 1959: MARIO LANZA (SINGER)
- BORN 1959: SIMON COWELL (AMERICAN IDOL JUDGE)
- 1959: FIRST PHOTOS TAKEN OF THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, BY LUNA 3
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- 1982: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S MUSICAL CATS OPENED ON BROADWAY
- 1985: LYNETTE WOODARD SELECTED AS THE FIRST WOMAN TO PLAY WITH THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS
- 1986: THE ROSE WAS CHOSEN TO BE NATIONAL FLORAL EMBLEM OF THE U.S. RESOLUTION SIGNED ON THIS DAY BY PRESIDENT REAGAN. U.S. CODE TITLE 36, CHAPTER 3, SECTION 303
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