New York State College of Human Ecology - Definition and Overview

The New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell University is a statutory college of the State University of New York (SUNY). It is the only college focusing on family and consumer science (also known as home economics) in the Ivy League.

The beginnings of the College appeared in the year 1900, when a reading course for farm women was created. In 1907, the Department of Home Economics was created within Cornell's College of Agriculture. In 1919, the Department of Home Economics becomes a school. In 1925, the school was converted to the New York State College of Home Economics, the first state-chartered college of Home Economics in the country. In 1949, the College was recognized as a partnership college of the State University of New York. The College's name was changed in 1969 (coinciding with an administrative reorganization of the College) to its present name -- the New York State College of Human Ecology -- to reflect a more "modern" focus of the College beyond "domestic arts."

External links

• New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell University (http://www.humec.cornell.edu/)