Cornell established the first four-year schools of hotel administration and industrial and labor relations. Cornell endowed the nation's first university chairs in American literature, musicology, and American history. Cornell University Press was the first university publishing enterprise in the United States and is one of the country's largest university presses. Cornell ranked second in gifts from alumni and fifth in total support among institutions in the nation reporting voluntary gift support received in 1997-98 (the most-recent data available). Twenty-seven Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Cornell as faculty members or students. |