Cornell ILR in NYC
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212 340-2800
Cornell-NYC students pose in front of Brooklyn Bridge.
ILR School
Prof. Samuel Bacharach (left), director of ILR's NYC-based Institute for Workplace Studies, conducts research on stress among NYC firefighters.
Advancing greater knowledge and expertise about the workplace through teaching, research, and outreach. Cornell University, through the ILR School, is the nation's only institution of higher education to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in the interdisciplinary field of workplace studies. Six academic departments span the range of subject areas related to work, employment, and the workplace:
- collective bargaining, labor law, and labor history
- human-resource management
- international and comparative labor
- labor economics
- organizational behavior
- social statistics
At ILR's New York City headquarters, theory and practice come together through a range of outreach programs, services, and activities, where ILR expertise on workplace issues is readily accessible to organizations, managers, and practitioners; union leaders and members; policy makers; and working adults. Programs include the Masters of Professional Studies degree, dozens of management development and human-resource workshops and certificate programs, the Global Labor Institute, the Institute for Women and Work, and union workshops and college credit courses. Other areas of focus include diversity/inclusion, employment and disability, conflict resolution, economic development, organizational change, and labor and employment law.