Cornell University College of Human Ecology Totally Explained

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The College of Human Ecology (HumEc) is a statutory college at Cornell University. The college is a unique compilation of studies on consumer science, nutrition, health economics, public policy, human development and textiles, each part of the discipline of human ecology.
Students at the College of Human Ecology delve into biology and chemistry, economics, psychology, and sociology, applying their expertise in fields such as health, design, nutrition, public policy, and marketing. Studies done by professors and students vary from studying the financial impacts of tax legislation to designing safer workplaces and facilitating healthy growth of premature infants.
For 2007-2008, HumEc has a total budget of $73 million, with $33 million from tuition and $9 million from state appropriations.

History

The beginnings of the College appeared in the year 1900, when a reading course for farm women was created. In 1907, the Department of Home Economics was created within Cornell's College of Agriculture. In 1919, the Department of Home Economics becomes a school. In 1925, the school was converted to the New York State College of Home Economics, the first state-chartered college of Home Economics in the country.
   The focus of the college at the turn of the 20th century was home economics. The field was a critical pathway for women to obtain higher education. From its inception, home economics was multidisciplinary and integrative with an emphasis on science applied to the real world of the home, families and communities. Eleanor Roosevelt played an integral role in the development of the College of Home Economics from the 1920s to the 1940s. As the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York from 1928 to 1932, and later as America's First Lady, from 1933 to 1945 (during her husband's tenure as President of the United States), she employed her fame and influence in ways that resulted in greater financial support for home economics programs and increased publicity for the College. It was with Eleanor Roosevelt's support that in February 1925, that the New York State legislature passed a bill, which made Cornell's School of Home Economics the New York State College of Home Economics.
   From 1922 until 1950, Cornell's hotel administration program operated as a department within the college, until it spun off into a separate endowed unit.
   In 1949, the College was administratively designated as a partnership college (officially, a statutory college, or in preferred parlance at Cornell, co-officially, a contract college) of the State University of New York. The New York Legislature changed the College's name in 1969 (coinciding with an administrative reorganization of the College) to its present name — the New York State College of Human Ecology — to reflect a more "modern" focus of the College beyond "domestic arts."

Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose	1924-1932
Flora Rose	1932-1940
Mary F. Henry (Acting)	1940-1941
Sarah Gibson Blanding	1941-1946
Elizabeth Lee Vincent	1946-1953
Helen G. Canoyer	1953-1968
David C. Knapp	1968-1974
Jean Failing	1974-1978
Jerome M. Ziegler	1978-1988
Francille M. Firebaugh	1988-1999
Patsy M. Brannon	1999-2004
Lisa Staiano-Coico	2004-2007
Alan Mathios (Interim)	2007-Present

Academics

The college enrolls approximately 1,200 undergraduates and 200 graduate students and has approximately 300 faculty members.
Admission is extremely competitive. Applications for the College of Human Ecology usually run around 1200. The college's acceptance rate as of 2004 is 35% as compared to the average of 29% for Cornell University in general. About 89% of the entering students are ranked in the top 10% as compared to the average of 85% for Cornell.
The College of Human Ecology comprises several departments:

Human Development (HD)
Policy Analysis & Management (PAM)
Division of Nutritional Sciences (DNS)
Design & Environmental Analysis (DEA)
Fiber Science & Apparel Design (FSAD)

Degrees

The college's undergraduate programs lead to the B.S. in one of the following areas:

Biology & Society

Design & Environmental Analysis

Human Biology, Health, & Society

Human Development

Individual Curriculum

Nutritional Sciences

Policy Analysis & Management

Fiber Science & Apparel Design The college also has programs that lead to the following graduate degrees, administered by the Graduate School:

M.S.

M.P.S. in Human Ecology

M.H.A.

Ph.D.

Notable alumni and faculty

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