Changing Cornell Landscape

Of all the proposed “reiminaging Cornell” initiatives that involved school reorganization, this one always seemed like the most easily implementable and practical one. The family of John Dyson has decided to give Cornell a $25 million dollar gift to establish the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management (HT Jordan Fabian). That’s right, AEM is out of the Ag School. All of the undergraduate and graduate students in the department of applied economics and management will be part of this new school. As Nagowski points out, AEM is so excited that they’ve already changed their name on their website:

By the way, does anyone else think that AEM could do itself a favor by putting slightly more complicated looking diagrams on its website? Maybe ones that are not covered in the first two weeks of Intro Micro? My initial reaction is that this graphic only reinforces the Cornell stereotype that AEM is an easy major for athletes and those who don’t want to deal with multivariable calculus and econometrics in the A&S Economics Department.

But I digress. All the details of this move are still emerging, and we’ll be sure to keep you up to speed as more information becomes available.

[Update]: From the press release on the AEM website: “Accompanied by former New York Power Authority chair John Dyson and top
university officials, Cornell President David Skorton today announced gifts totaling $25 million and the establishment of a new school— the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management—in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).” It’s still not 100% clear to me how this is going to work, but at any rate I might have been incorrect in saying that “AEM is out of the Ag School.”