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 From
bio-psychological and cognitive studies to economic, social, and
political structures, to the comparative study of cultural systems,
and political philosophy, the social science disciplines are wide-ranging
in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). Approaches
differ in both the data they rely on and the methods they practice.
As a result, the subject matter of the social sciences is complex.
The various social sciences cover all of this territory in different
ways and are built on dynamic combinations of expertise. Furthermore,
the social sciences are marked also by the twin sources of their
growth and vitality, disciplinary strength and interdisciplinary
expertise and collaboration.
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 The
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is acknowledged as
one of the best colleges of its kind in the nation, if not the world.
While much of the spotlight has traditionally been on the college’s
achievements in biological-based research in agriculture and the
life sciences, another group of scientists has been quietly making
waves in the social sciences.
In CALS, scientists are not defined by whether they wear white coats
but by their ability to employ scholarship to address society’s
needs and improve the quality of human lives, domestically and internationally.
These are the fundamental goals
that drive the land-grant mission of the college.
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 The
College of Human Ecology responds to human needs. Improving nutrition
and health, advancing design and technology, promoting human development
throughout the life course, and securing the economic and social
well-being of people comprise work done through the college’s
multidisciplinary programs in research, teaching, and outreach. The
emphasis on the interaction of individuals, families, and communities
with their work, learning, social, and personal environments is grounded
in the social and behavioral sciences as well as the life and physical
sciences, humanities, and design. Much of the research in the college
deals with consideration of social conditions, including policy and
its implications for human well-being.
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 A
commitment to educate professional practitioners—in architecture,
art, real estate, historic preservation, and planning—unifies
the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP). This commitment
has obvious implications for the research endeavor, encouraging a
close exchange between theory and practice, between idea generation
and the application of concrete skills, and between teaching and
research. The impulse to forge integrated approaches, drawing on
aesthetic sensibilities, advanced technologies, and political and
economic theories is unusual in a world that often produces fragmented
knowledge and understanding.
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 In
the years following World War II, leaders in business, labor, and
state government recognized the growing need for a new kind of school—where
people could become skilled at dealing with the volatile issues of
the changing American workplace. They also recognized that Cornell’s
heritage of creative synthesis of the rigorous intellectual tradition
and the democratic spirit of the great state schools made it the
ideal home for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR).
Today’s research at the ILR School focuses on a broad spectrum
of issues in the global workplace, and its interdisciplinary focus
spans the social sciences.
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 The
recent wave of corporate failures brought on by executive malfeasance
has cost innocent people millions of dollars in the form of lost
jobs and decimated pensions. In the wake of the
seemingly endless tide of corporations that have misrepresented
their financial status, it appears the nation’s leaders
are again being reminded of the elemental components of true
financial success—that acting ethically, behaving with
integrity, and building strong, enabling relationships with employees
are essential to engaging the full measure of worker effort.
When managers practice what they preach and care about the quality
of their relationships with workers, the results directly and
positively contribute to their corporations’ financial
success.
These revelations are nothing new to the cadre of faculty researchers
at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration who were investigating
matters of this kind long before the current problems surfaced.
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