H. Fisk Johnson ’79, M.Eng. ’80, M.S. ’82, MBA ’84, Ph.D. ’86, and SC Johnson have committed $150 million for Cornell University’s College of Business, which comprises the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, the School of Hotel Administration, and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. It is the largest single gift to Cornell’s Ithaca campus and the second largest gift to name a U.S. business school.
Just my speculation/reaction: requires a lot of things to be sorted out.
“Cash cow” cross-enrollment dollars no longer flow to ag school
-Potential “efficiency”- may result in some staffing reductions; less duplication in undergrad offerings; (eg more sections of intro AEM accounting, etc instead of different courses in hotel vs. AEM?)
Will ag school re-institute an ag ec major, like they had before?
Frankly seemed to me AEM had a better reputation than Johnson has for grad. Maybe that will smooth out.
Probably won’t have any ag school- imposed course requirements, if they had them before.
Ag school AEM profs now will be paid on endowed division scale, if they weren’t before.
Some people didn’t like that AEM was in the ag school, didn’t sound good to them. Now it won’t be.
On the other hand, some people liked paying only in-state tuition rates to attend AEM. Now I guess that won’t be.
Will need some way to keep declared hotel new admits from using hotel as a “back door”, then running off to “regular” AEM. Previously, the separate colleges system helped with that.
Reported Ag school stats will no longer include AEM students.
It seems positive for Hotel students. Not sure it helps AEM students, because AEM had arguably the best overall rep of the three, from what I’ve read, and now they are all comingled. But hopefully it does help them, somehow.
I’m not sure it’s so good for the ag school, though…