cornell university is a private ivy league statutory land-grant research university based in ithaca, new york.the university was founded in 1865 by ezra cornell and andrew dickson white.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 10,000 graduate students from all 50 american states and 119 countries.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 three satellite campuses, including two in new york city and one in the education city region of 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 and its industrial labor relations school.among cornell's graduate schools, only the veterinary college is state-supported.the main campus of cornell university in ithaca spans 745 acres  (more than 4,300 acres when the cornell botanic gardens and the numerous university-owned lands in new york city are included).as of september 2021, there have been 61 nobel laureates, 4 turing award winners, and 1 fields medalist 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.ezra cornell offered his farm in ithaca, new york as a preliminary site for the university along with $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial endowment (equivalent to $11,884,000 in 2022), and white agreed to be cornell university's first president.during cornell university's first three years, white oversaw the construction of the first two buildings and traveled to attract students and faculty.the university was inaugurated on october 7, 1868, and 412 men were enrolled the next day.cornell developed as a technologically innovative institution, applying its research to its own campus and to outreach efforts.in 1883, it was one of the first university campuses to use electricity from a water-powered dynamo to light the campus grounds.since 1894, cornell has included colleges that are state funded and fulfill statutory requirements; it has also administered research and extension activities that have been jointly funded by new york state along with federal government matching programs.cornell has had active alumni since its earliest classes.it was one of the first universities to include alumni-elected representatives on its board of trustees.protests and occupations resulted in the resignation of cornell's president and the restructuring of university governance.in 1967, cornell experienced a fire in the residential club dormitory that killed eight students and one professor.in 2004, the university opened the weill cornell medical college in qatar.it has partnerships with institutions in india, singapore, and the people's republic of china.the former president, jeffrey s. lehman, described the university, with its high international profile, as a 'transnational university'.on march 9, 2004, cornell and stanford university laid the cornerstone for a new 'bridging the rift center' to be built and jointly operated for education on the israel–jordan border.a graduate student group, at what cost?, formed at cornell in august 2002 to oppose a graduate student unionization drive run by an organization called case/uaw that was affiliated with the united auto workers.the unionization vote was held october 23–24, 2002, and the union was rejected.
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