
Heirs
to a distinguished tradition of research, Cornell's social
scientists today are presented with exciting opportunities and
challenges as they
seek to understand, explain, and, where possible, improve human society. These
opportunities and challenges arise from a common source.
Located
in eight of Cornell's eleven colleges on the Ithaca campus, the
faculty in the social sciences number between 400 and 500 at the professorial
level alone. Faculty are found in the endowed, the state-assisted, and the
professional schools. They engage not only in basic and applied research
but also in a broad
range of extension activities. Their interests are disciplinary and interdisciplinary,
domestic and international. Their approaches are quantitative and qualitative:
they overlap at one end with the natural and computational sciences and at
the other with the arts and humanities. They are fully engaged
with both of Cornell's dual,
and occasionally dueling, personalities "elite" Ivy League institution
and "Land-Grant" university
of the State of New York.
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