Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations - Campus

Campus

The school was originally housed in quonset huts, but later it moved into buildings vacated by the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, which were built in 1911 and are on the register of historic structures.

The main campus occupies a quad near the center of Cornell, comprising an academic building, a research building, an extension building, a conference center, and a library. Ives Hall, named after ILR founding dean Irving Ives, is the academic building and is divided into a classroom/student wing and a faculty wing. The student wing houses separate lounges for undergraduate and graduate students. Also on the quad is the Martin P. Catherwood Library, which is one of only two official depository libraries of the International Labour Organization (the other being the Library of Congress). The ILR Conference Center, with its distinctive belfry atop, hosts special training sessions and recruiting events, and houses a United States Post Office and offices for the United Auto Workers. The research building houses the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution as well as offices for the ILR Review. The extension building, renamed Dolgen Hall in 2008, houses the Employment & Disability Institute.

In 1998, New York State replaced the portion of Ives Hall fronting along Tower Road with a new 110,605 sq ft (10,275.5 m2) building. Recently, the State also renovated the faculty wing of Ives Hall at a cost of $14 million. The school also has branches in Albany, Buffalo, New York City and Rochester. From 2001-2004, the three buildings were extensively renovated by New York State.

ILR also furnishes an extension building in New York City, where executive courses are taught and which serves as headquarters for the R. Brinkley Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies and the Institute for Workplace Studies.