One of the undergraduate division's requirements for graduation is that students work off-campus for at least thirty weeks during their college careers. A student may work one summer with a business group, the next with a labor organization, and perhaps the third with a governmental agency, earning course credit for his work. Practical experience in the pre-college years is also a definite factor in the School's admissions decisions.

Large Research Program

A second important aspect of the School's work is its extension service in New York. Regional representatives in Albany. Buffalo, New York City, and Ithaca help to plan conferences and courses with interested groups.

The School also makes major provision for its research and study program. The special library contains over 20,000 volumes and periodicals and the School issues a quarterly journal.

School faculty members on occasion venture out of their Quonset hut offices to participate in fact-finding boards and investigating committees in specific labor controversies. One faculty member helped to advise a Congressional committee studying possible revisions in the Taft-Hartley Law. Dean Catherwood himself has served on groups investigating the New York waterfront situation and the recent dispute between the railroads and their non-operating employees.

Thus, the School is one of the least cloistered of Cornell's divisions. Its students may not actually dig in the coalmines they visit and they do not declare dividends for the companies they study. But they seem to learn almost everything else about that complicated organism, the American economy.