Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1922 |
| Dean | Kate Walsh |
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Academic staff
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60 |
| Undergraduates | 894 |
| Postgraduates | 67 |
| Location |
Ithaca, New York, U.S. 42°26′45″N 76°28′54″W / 42.4458011°N 76.48158639999997°W |
| Website | sha |
| Established | 1992 |
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| Director | David Sherwyn |
| Address | 537 Statler Hall, Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Advisory Board Members | 33 |
| Website | www |
The School of Hotel Administration (SHA) at Cornell University is a specialized business school for hospitality management founded in 1922 as the world's first four-year intercollegiate school devoted to the field. It is one of a few hospitality management schools in the country that is not part of another academic department, school, or college, though until 1950, it was operated as a department within the New York State College of Home Economics. The undergraduate business curriculum at the School of Hotel Administration is one of only three such Ivy League programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) including the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Cornell University's Dyson Applied Economics and Management program, and Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. Cornellians generally refer to it as the Hotel School, and its students and alumni as Hotelies.
The nature of SHA was in large part the creation of professor Howard B. Meek. He was supported in his efforts by New York City hotel men, a number of whom testified in Albany, urging the legislature to appropriate $11,000 per year for the school. Edward M. Tierney of the Ansonia Hotel stated "There is a dearth of competent hotel employes [sic], and such a course at Cornell would have the endorsement and co-operation of the hotel men generally throughout the country... The war brought a great change in the hotel worker, and the old-time attitude of servility has been replaced by efficient service giving and courtesy. Young men now enter the hotel business just as they would banking, railroad, or commercial life, to find a future in it, and the hotel man must offer the same attractions of commensurate pay and advancement."
In 1927, at the 2nd Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, Meek convinced a skeptical Ellsworth Milton Statler of the value of the concept; Statler declared "I'm converted. Meek can have any damn thing he wants." Statler and his wife became major benefactors of the school, eventually donating a total of more than $10 million. In 1950, the school was transformed from being a part of a statutory college into becoming an endowed unit of Cornell.
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