Bucking a recent trend of plummeting state aid to the University, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D) proposed 2012-13 executive budget will preserve funding for Cornell’s contract colleges. His proposal, released Jan. 17, must still be approved by the New York State Legislature in March.

Two months after the University announced it would consolidate economics professors across the University into a single department, students say they have not noticed any sweeping changes, and administrators say that changes will take time to materialize. 

ILR alumnus Alan Krueger '83 is nominated to become President Barack Obama's new Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Administrators at the ILR school have been cutting costs and looking for alternative revenue sourses since the 2007 financial crisis, easing the impact of Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent budget on the school. 

Theodore Kheel '36 was one of the labor movement's most prized mediators. 

Prof. Francine Blau '66 is the recipient of the IZA Study of Labor Economics Prize.

Prof. Ron Seeber, industrial and labor relations and associate dean of the ILR school, was appointed as senior vice provost on Jul. 1.

FBI documents recently obtained by The Sun through the Freedom of Information Act show that the University was under constant surveillance in the 1940s for potential communist activities, ranging from radical student groups to left-wing professors.

One year ago, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations both made the results of their end-of-semester course evaluations available online. Now, students and teachers weigh in on the vastly different response rates that the colleges' divergent approaches to conducting these evaluations have produced.

“Course evaluation is a messy thing since every college has latitude to do what they want,” said Mike Hammer, director of data management for the College of Engineering.

Though many of the “Reimagining Cornell” academic task forces released earlier this month call for major overhauls of some academic programs, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations Task Force report does not recommend any changes to its academic programs, faculty levels or students services.