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High-Performance Professional Development
through Distance Learning

  • State-of-the-art technology
  • High-performance professional development
  • Understanding of your business or industry
  • Dynamic teachers
  • Intensive, focused, and effective programs
  • Just-in-time education

A World Class Institution

Cornell University is one of the great universities of the world. Its areas of special distinction encompass the greatest possible range, from the most theoretical to the most practical subjects. Cornell's unparalleled combination of breadth and depth means programs can be shaped according to real-world issues, with all their varied facets and perspectives.

Professional Development Through Distance Learning

Unusual among its peer institutions, Cornell also has state-of-the-art distance learning facilities. This means that corporations can optimize existing investments in in-house technologies to bring Cornell professors, researchers, and other experts to their own facilities. The flexibility of distance learning allows a much greater variety of learning formats and time frames than those commonly utilized. Cornell brings you just-in-time education that allows a high-performance approach to training and executive development.

The Right Contacts

Cornell is unusual in another way. In spite of the almost incredible variety of people and facilities, it is not hard for corporations to identify the resources they want to access. Cornell's School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions works to link corporate leaders with all parts of the university. Working with us, you can develop intensive, focused, and effective programs that respond to the unique needs of your corporation. These programs, which may include both synchronous and asynchronous learning, can take place at Cornell, at corporate sites, in segments at various locations, or in multiple locations though distance learning technologies.

The Right Process

We at Cornell will do everything possible to ensure that:

  • The best faculty members for your purpose are identified. That means people with the right knowledge and research interests who are also dynamic focused teachers and - this is crucial - who really understand and appreciate the concerns of business and industry.
  • An open, substantive planning dialogue takes place between those faculty members and the essential people from the corporation.
  • The process involves Cornell staff members who really know how to design a program to make the most of the faculty, the participants, the time, and the place.

We invite you and your corporation to put the rich resources of Cornell University to work for you. Experienced, knowledgeable, and highly motivated people stand ready to identify and engage those resources on your behalf and to make them available to you in optimal learning formats.

A Leader in Distance Learning

In keeping with its long tradition of extension and outreach, Cornell has been a pioneer in the use of distance learning technologies, including two-way and multi-point video-telecommunications, web-based and CD-ROM computer delivery, and other technologies of the Internet. State-of-the-art educational facilities make access to the university's resources even easier than before. 

Distance learning has been available in several forms for a number of years, and its application has been proven to both enhance productivity and reduce the cost of doing business. Cornell University has been a leader in providing the highest quality content to companies and organizations throughout the world. Now your organization can combine the cost advantages of on-site distance learning with the educational advantages previously available only by traveling to a Cornell program.

School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions

  • Glenn C. Altschuler - Dean
  • Charles W. Jermy, Jr. - Associate Dean
  • Mary Adie - Director of Special Programs and Executive Education

Cornell University Special Programs

B20 Day Hall
Ithaca, NY, 14853-2801
Telephone:  607.255.7259
Fax:  607.255.9697
e-mail:  cusp@cornell.edu
web site:  www.sce.cornell.edu

A sampling of Cornell's areas of special expertise and leadership

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • African Development
  • Agricultural Biotechnology
  • Animal Science
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Aquatic Sciences
  • Architecture
  • Astronomy
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Atomic Physics
  • Biochemistry
  • Bioengineering
  • Biometrics
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemical Ecology
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • City and Regional Planning
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Climate Change Research
  • Cognitive Studies
  • Communication
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Science
  • Consumer Economics
  • Earth Sciences
  • Economic and Social Statistics
  • Economics
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Packaging
  • Energy Systems
  • Engineering Physics
  • English as a Second Language
  • Environmental Policy
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Environmental Toxicology
  • Epidemiology
  • Ergonomics
  • Ethics and Public Life
  • European Studies
  • Floriculture
  • Food and Beverage Management
  • Food Science
  • Fruit and Vegetable Science
  • Genetics
  • Genome Variation Analysis
  • Geological Sciences
  • German Studies
  • Government
  • Health Services Administration
  • Horticulture
  • Hotel Administration
  • Human Resource Studies
  • Imaging Technology
  • Immunology
  • Industrial and Labor Relations
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Information Technologies
  • Injection Molding
  • International Agriculture
  • International Business
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • International Workplace Studies
  • Labor Economics
  • Labor Law
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Latin American Studies
  • Law and Public Policy
  • Management
  • Managerial Economics
  • Manufacturing Management
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Mathematical Sciences
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Medicine
  • Microbiology
  • Microscience and Technology
  • Modern Languages
  • Molecular and Cell Biology
  • Nanofabrication
  • Natural Resources
  • Near Eastern Studies
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Neuroscience
  • Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Ocean Resources and Ecosystems
  • Operations Research
  • Optoelectronics Technology
  • Parasitology
  • Pathology
  • Pesticide Management
  • Pharmacology
  • Physics
  • Physiology
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant Pathology
  • Plasma Studies
  • Population and Development
  • Psychology
  • Radiophysics and Space Research
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Slavic and East European Studies
  • Sociology
  • Solid State Physics
  • South Asian Studies
  • Southeast Asian Studies
  • Spacecraft Planetary Imaging
  • Textiles and Apparel
  • Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  • Thermal Engineering
  • Tourism Management
  • Toxicology
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Veterinary Physiology
  • Waste Management
  • Water Resources Management