They have four year campuses in Austin, DFW (2), SA, El Paso, Valley, and Odessa, but not one in the largest city in the state. It would make sense. http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/news/university-of-texas-is-coming-to-houston/ 300 acres is pretty big for just a research campus. It'll be good for Houston if UT made this a 4-year campus. UH isn't enough for a fast growing area the size of Houston, even with A&M not too far away. I'm not sure how this will mess with UH's plans on opening a medical school, but both can co-exist. Just let UH into the Big 12 already.
Here's to hoping it would improve that area. God bless the non-Houstonian students who get move into a Sunnyside apartment cuz they get excited at how cheap the rent is.
It happened with UH. Now some of these complexes are advertised for students and there are more new off campus sites for UH/TSU (the Vue and Vue II). It's along the testing track for the light rail so it'll be connected to the system pretty easily. I agree it'll be good and improve that area.
Sigh. UH's glory days are coming to an end. Unless UH can figure a way to get more students to live on and near campus - short of buying up tracks of the 3rd - it's going to be tough to compete with this.
I'm conflicted. This is obviously good for Houston, but it feels like an affront to Rice and UH. Either way, the location is pretty mediocre (gotta love those transit time estimates, lol). It will take some time for it to grow.
No kidding? “This effort will be decades in the making" - McRaven This will be wonderful for Houston, the Med Center, and Rice and UH also. World-class research facility in Houston? Why hasn't this happened before? "...while at the same time allowing us to build partnerships with industry and the other great academic institutions in the area.” Such an affront to UH and Rice. There's no way this could benefit those institutions.
Lol, what else is he supposed to say? No matter how much it benefits UH or Rice, in the world of dwindling research dollars, it will be an overall negative.
What graduates, do you think, might be interested in working/studying/interning there? Maybe the ones that already live and study in the city? It's a symbiotic relationship, this isn't undergrad (nods to ziggy) pee-pee games. Research is research, and dollars are dollars, this cannot possibly hurt anyone or anything in Houston.
I hate to sound blunt, but unless you have been in the world of academic research (hard sciences in particular) you don't know what I am talking about
Rice is buying out Baylor in the Med center. Rice has never been in the business of grad schools, but now they are...This sounds like a reaction to that. Some people say Rice's interest is buying out Baylor is not so much about expanding it's offerings by having a Med School, but more about Rice just wants that f!cking adjacent land that they should have claimed back in 1912 when no one else wanted that land.
Has there been any new development on that front? I thought all merger talks ended in 2010 with this being the most recent news.
For now at least, but it makes sense for UT to grow this into a full 4-year university. 300 acres, baseball fields, light rail access. Seems inevitable, imo. It'll be a while, but the market is there. Texas is growing and lags behind in higher education (we need to look at California).
Good idea and a no brainer. Texas already has a dearth of good schools relative to population. Look at California, the UCs are by far the best system in the nation. Almost all of their schools are nationally ranked. That location should be good too, it will eventually stimulate growth, higher population density, and increasing property values. The location will also attract better students, who want to live and study in lively international cities with lots of things to do. Not to mention the benefit of Houston's economy.
Yes, that first "merger" stalled. My understanding is because Rice has since realized how bad a financial situation Baylor is in, and they can wait for a lower price. Rice is very patient when it comes to buying up all the land around them.
Well, then I'm sorry, what is your disagreement with what I posted? Without being blunt and all, you could please educate some people about the issue from your vantage point.
Most likely has to do with $XX limited federal research grants having to be spread out between more programs. UT's flagship name could also steer research dollars and programs away from Rice and UH, which Houston natives will feel threatened by because they want their local schools to thrive. But in the long run, and for the public good, more research programs benefits us all.