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Cornell University and eCornell Partnerships eCornell works with the schools and faculty of Cornell University to create innovative online learning programs that address the knowledge and skills professionals require in today's competitive marketplace. College of Industrial and Labor Relations Faculty at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) are thought-leaders in their respective fields, distinguished by cutting-edge research in aspects of the social sciences related to employment and the workplace. The world's leading training ground for Human Resources professionals, ILR specializes in HR management, conflict resolution, management development, employment law, change management, increasing productivity, globalization, employee empowerment, measuring the value and performance of human capital, and new methods of decision making in the human resources field. Faculty from the ILR school have authored courses in Human Resources, Management Essentials, and Leadership and Strategic Management. Learn more about the ILR School and its offerings for working professionals: School of Hotel Administration New technologies are driving change in the hospitality industry and revolutionizing the way restaurants, resorts, hotel chains, airlines, and cruise lines do business. Since 1922, the School of Hotel Administration (SHA) has been a central leader in the development of this industry--an industry that has experienced vast growth and now ranks as the world's largest by revenue and number of people employed. SHA has the world's most sought-after group of thought leaders focused on hospitality service-oriented management. Many large, global hospitality companies are actively involved with the faculty for executive education and training, as well as for research and consulting. As a result, the Hotel School is widely regarded as the hospitality industry's "think tank." With the Cornell Hotel School, eCornell develops programs that emphasize the knowledge and analytical skills needed for efficient and effective management of worldwide hospitality investments. We understand the importance of hospitality as an economic sector, and our courses impart the techniques needed to effectively manage, market, and develop destinations worldwide. For the past three years new graduate students in the Hotel School’s Master of Management in Hospitality (MMH) Program have completed six eCornell courses as a prerequisite to their matriculation into the one-year program. In the online courses they learn and/or review the basic concepts of finance, financial statements, and statistics. They also meet each other online and build relationships prior to coming to campus which facilitates their transition into a highly interactive curriculum that emphasizes team work. Courses: For a complete list of our courses in hospitality and foodservice management, please visit our course catalog. Learn more about executive education at the Hotel School. Johnson Graduate School of Management The Johnson School combines leading-edge intellectual capital with "real time, real world" business practice and is among the top business schools in the world. Distinctive Johnson School offerings include a wide variety of opportunities for experiential learning, such as immersion curricula and student-run venture capital and mutual funds. Faculty from the Johnson School have authored eCornell courses in Leadership and Strategic Management. Learn more about executive education at the Johnson School. College of Engineering Cornell's top-ranked College of Engineering, founded in 1870, has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence in engineering teaching and research. The College has been ranked as being one of the top seven engineering programs in the United States by U.S. News and World Reports with many of its individual programs ranked at the top of their fields. The College of Engineering is among the largest at Cornell with about 3,000 undergraduate students, 1,300 graduate students, and 230 tenured or tenure-track faculty members. The College is divided into twelve departments or schools including the highly regarded Schools of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Applied and Engineering Physics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Departments of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering. Faculty from the College of Engineering and have authored eCornell courses in Project Leadership. Please visit our course catalog. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences In January 2008, the first pilot group of farm managers will complete an online course in GAPs—Good Agricultural Practices with eCornell. Bob Gravani, faculty member in Food Science/CALS approached eCornell to collaborate on a USDA grant to fund the development and initial delivery of an online version of his successful program. We crafted a cost-effective grant application with our infrastructure and pedagogical tools for development of the course in English and Spanish that will ultimately reach farm managers in the US and abroad with the goal of protecting the fresh food supply from a variety of pathogens. College of Human Ecology One of the first colleges to open its doors to women, the College of Human Ecology (CHE) has always been known as a catalyst for positive change. CHE has a long-standing involvement in international activities, including research programs in nutrition, child development, facility planning, textiles, and policy as well as educational exchanges with foreign universities and study-abroad programs. Projects with CHE The online course, Preventing Childhood Obesity: An Ecological Approach, is a partnership between Cornell NutritionWorks and eCornell. This Faculty Innovation in Teaching Project was designed using the eCornell model and is delivered on our learning platform several times a year to cohorts of twenty-five community-based nutrition and health professionals. For more information see the course registration website. eCornell has also partnered with T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry to produce a certificate program designed to help one understand the role of a plant-based diet in the healing, managing, and preventing of disease. The Certificate in Plant-based Nutrition expands upon Dr. Campbell's ground-breaking, bestselling book, The China Study, Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health. A series of courses in Healthcare Leadership developed in partnership with the Sloan Program in CHE embraces a quantitative and qualitative approach to developing leadership competencies that drive transformation and innovation in the healthcare setting with a strong business model focus. eCornell is also working with the Sloan Program to develop a prerequisite statistics course. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology The Cornell Lab of Ornithology uses the best science and technology--and inspires the widest range of people and organizations--to solve critical problems facing wildlife. Their mission is to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. eCornell partnered with the Lab of O to build and deliver the online examinations for the Lab’s Home Study Course in Bird Biology. The course is facilitated by a Lab of O instructor, consists of ten online exams, and students earn a certificate upon successful completion.
