<P> The school offered the first 4 - year degree (B.S.) in the field of industrial and labor relations . Originally, students had ninety - seven of the required 120 hours prescribed for them . The first two years consisted of many social science classes such as American history and government, sociology, psychology, economics, and law . Students were required to take English and public speaking courses as well as courses in accounting and statistics . The last two years of coursework were the technical core: classes that were expected to provide the students with the technical skills and competencies which enable them to develop professional expertise within the field of industrial and labor relations . Examples of these courses include: history of labor and labor - union organization and management, business organization and management, and corporate finance . Beyond the classroom, students were expected to gain applied experience . This was achieved primarily through a required summer work - training program . To fulfill this expectation, students would spend three of their summers working in the field for each of the following types of organizations: industrial or commercial, government, and labor . </P> <P> In 2012, ILR opened the International HRM Academy in collaboration with King's College London . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 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 Yang Tan Institute . </P>

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