Cornell has campuses, colleges, and schools. Within those are numerous departments. Cornell also has fields of study. And there are numerous labs, institutes and centers.
As a private university, Cornell operates four state-assisted “contract” colleges pursuant to the authority set forth in Article 115 of the New York Education Law: the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Ecology, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and the College of Veterinary Medicine. The remaining units on campus are endowed: the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering, the Graduate School, Cornell Law School and the S. C. Johnson College of Business. New York City is the location of two additional endowed units, Weill Cornell Medical College, situated in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and Cornell Tech, located on Roosevelt Island. The statutory charter of the university delegates the administration of all schools and colleges – “contract” as well as “endowed” – to the Board of Trustees.
The Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca, and Cornell Cooperative Extension, administered from Ithaca but with an network of agents and offices throughout the state, are associated primarily with the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology. The School of Industrial and Labor Relations Extension Division has offices and training facilities in the major metropolitan areas of the state where instruction is offered in human resource management, labor relations, and related subjects to practitioners in the field. Finally, the university maintains regional field offices in some of the major metropolitan areas of the country to assist in activities related to recruiting and admission of students, alumni affairs, fund-raising, and development efforts.
