- NYU is planning a campus expansion that will be the largest in the university’s history. The expansion, which includes a new tower on Bleecker Street, various other classroom buildings, dorms, theaters, and offices throughout Greenwich Village, a one million square foot engineering school in Brooklyn, and a new campus on Governors Island, will increase the NYU campus by 40% and is expected to take 20 years to complete. The plans are grand and much of the plan has not been approved by the city. According to the New York Times article “NYU Plans to Expand Campuses by 40 Percent,” “the university has clashed repeatedly with its neighbors over much less ambitious expansion efforts of recent decades.” But, as NYU president John E. Sexton says, “It’s clear that NYU had a history of moving forward without listening.” According to the article the university aims to increase its 160 academic square feet per student to 240 per student. (Compare this to Columbia’s 326, Yale’s 866, and Harvard’s 673 academic square feet per student.)
- Inside Higher Ed ran a nice article last week about the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program, a program started in 2004 to bridge the gap between top research universities and underrepresented students from minority-serving institutions. Students generally receive Master’s degrees in science and technology fields at Fisk and then move on to complete their Ph.D.s at Vanderbilt, though some go on to other universities, including Yale and the University of Chicago. The program, which began with only five students, has increased in size and in national attention.
- Finding a summer work-study position at the University of Pennsylvania will likely be more difficult this summer than in the past, reports a Daily Pennsylvanian article titled “Summer work-study jobs decrease in availability.” According to Marlene Bruno, Student Financial Services Communications Manager, the 23% decrease in work-study funds is determined by congress. As of now, the decrease is tentative; but many students are playing it safe by looking outside of Penn’s employment system for jobs this summer. The likely decrease of summer job opportunities will also affect Wharton students.
- Another Daily Pennsylvanian article last week discussed the value (or lack thereof) of the GRE. The subject of the importance or irrelevance of the Graduate Records Examination has been a hot topic at the University of Pennsylvania campus this year, especially since this fall, for the first time, Penn’s Wharton will allow MBA applicants to submit GRE scores instead of the traditional GMAT. Other top MBA and EMBA programs that already accept the GRE include Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB, and Harvard Business School. Columbia Graduate School of Business, and Georgetown McDonough allow the GRE for their EMBA program only. As of now, it seems that the GMAT is still more widely respected than the GRE to b-school adcoms and students, though that will likely change as time goes on.
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