Alumni

Cornell Annual Fund

Hotelies are renowned as loyal alumni. By making a yearly gift, you can demonstrate that we have the highest level of alumni satisfaction and pride. Contributing to the Cornell Annual Fund is an important way of supporting the Hotel School. Each year requests are made of every alumnus/a of the University to support the Cornell Fund. As a Hotelie, we encourage you to designate your annual fund gift to the Hotel School. Your unrestricted gift enables the Hotel School to provide additional scholarship assistance to our students. All donations are appreciated. No gift is too small. Increased participation and pledges serve to promote and further strengthen the Hotel School.

Endowed Scholarships

The endowed scholarship program allows the Hotel School to offer more than 350 of its students outright scholarship aid.  These competitive financial aid packages to prospective and current students are possible through the Hotel Schools $2 million dollar scholarship program and are made possible almost entirely through the generosity of our alumni, parents and friends. Scholarships are an investment in the future. What was given to students as an act of faith many years ago will often be returned to the institution many times over.  Young alumni can endow a scholarship for as little as $25,000.

Meek Scholarship

Contributing to the Howard Bagnall Meek Scholarship Fund is a wonderful way to honor the man whose vision helped found the Hotel School. Every donation over $1,000 entitles the contributor to a name seat in the Statler Auditorium with a plaque in his or her honor, or someone of their choosing.

Professorships

Endowed support to attract and retain our world-class faculty helps to assure the Hotel School’s place among the finest hospitality education in the world. The Cornell Hotel School seeks to expand its endowment for existing faculty positions as well as to increase the size of the full-time faculty.

Facilities Support

To ensure that Statler Hall and the Robert J. and Jan M. Beck Center continue to serve as state of the art facilities for the teaching of a world class hospitality education, we constantly seek opportunities to renovate, restore and upgrade our spaces for teaching and learning. Numerous current designated and endowed opportunities exist to assist with this important and on-going work.

Program Support

The Hotel School sponsors many programs that not only enhance the quality of a student's education, but also strengthen the entire hospitality industry. Some of these programs include the Summer Honors Program for High School Students, The Professional Development Program and The Hostline Information Services.

Nestlé Library

Gifts, no matter what the amount, help support every facet of Nestlé Library -- from enriching our holdings and expanding our resources, to preserving our collections and improving our services with advanced technology. Outright gifts and collection endowments provide naming opportunities in the donors name, to honor current or past Hotel School faculty members for their leadership, to honor fellow colleagues, or in memory of someone. Endowments provide assurance that funding will be available in perpetuity to support the Library's collections and programs.

Book plates in individual volumes acknowledge support. A specific journal title or electronic resource can also be endowed, with credit to the donor's name in the Cornell University online catalog- accessible worldwide via the Internet.

Center for Hospitality Research

The Center links cutting edge research with the needs of the hospitality industry. Research projects are supported by a network of 55 leading organizations, which are corporate sponsors. In addition to becoming a corporate sponsor there are other endowment opportunities available including naming the Center.

Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship

The Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship (IHE) at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration strives to support and enable new business formation and innovation in the industry.

Statler Hotel

The Statler Hotel has 153 guest rooms, many with breathtaking views of Cornell University and the rolling countryside, in addition to abundant meeting space.  The Statler Hotel is host to hundreds of conferences and special events each year. Conference Facilities include an 87-seat amphitheater, seven breakout rooms and a ballroom with seating up to 300.   Gifts to The Statler Hotel are used to renovate existing space and donors can name hotel rooms or suites.

Hotel School Campaign

Far Above... The Campaign for Cornell will empower the University to lead and be a model for higher education in the 21st century and position the School of Hotel Administration to prepare the next generation of leaders who will influence the direction of the world's largest industry.

Deanship

The dean of the School of Hotel Administration leads an institution that encompasses the research and teaching of some 60 faculty members, 800 undergraduates, 100 graduate students, and over 1,700 industry professionals who enroll in executive education courses annually. The dean oversees the full scope of the school’s activities, in addition to guiding the efforts of an extraordinarily involved body of alumni, parents, and friends, and representing the school at academic conferences, colloquia, and trade shows. Establishing an endowment for the School’s deanship would provide resources to strengthen the curriculum, recruit and maintain faculty, fund student and faculty research, and ensure that the School remains the world’s leading center for hospitality management teaching and research. A $10,000,000 gift will endow the deanship.

Center for Real Estate and Finance

The newly-created Center sponsors rigorous academic research, disseminates that knowledge to practitioners, and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas among professionals, the academic community, and students. It is a core component of the School’s new Undergraduate Minor in Real Estate.

Tower Renovation Project