Although most of the recent news concerning undergraduate admissions has focused on increased competition involving more students applying for the same number of seats, both Yale and Harvard are developing plans to significantly expand the size of their undergraduate classes.
According to Yale president Richard Levin, the university will build additional dorms for two new [...]
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It seems that the concept of a higher education endowment gap has realoy taken root in the popular press. How should the Top Tier colleges and universities responsibly exercise control over the huge endowments that ensure their separation from the rest of the higher education universe? To what extent do they owe a debt to [...]
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It looks like Harvard’s proposed science complex in North Allston is going to get the green light after the university agreed to a $24 million package for neighborhood redevelopment. There are still some aspects of this project that seem unclear from the article. For example, while the overall cost will be over $1 billion, the [...]
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Brown University has announced an ambitious plan to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by almost one-half by the year 2020, with a longer term goal of a 50% overall cut. All new facilities will have to meet that 50% target immediately. It looks like much of the cut will be achieved by switching to natural [...]
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Although it appears that Columbia University has won its battle to expand its campus in New York City, opponents still point to the historic structures that will be lost in the necessary land clearing prior to new facility development. It seems to the Insider that while opponents do have a case, an absolute ban on [...]
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Lest you might think that all the construction work is limited to New Haven, New York, or New Haven, here’s a story about a new performing arts complex being deveoped in the proximity of the University of Chicago complex. The Logan’s gift of $35 million was sufficient to kick-start this project, the total cost of [...]
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Those of you who missed the November article in Business Week entitled “The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivy League” will find that it makes interesting reading. Written prior to the Harvard announcement concerning financial aid packages, it details the divergence between the growing commitment by the elite private schools to expanding and deepening their faculties, [...]
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From Flickr, comes a very fine high dynamic dynamic range photo taken at the Yale University campus.
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As reported widely in the media including Crain’s New York Business.com, Columbia University recently received approval to proceed with a huge construction project that will remake the skyline of West Harlem. Their plan provides for over 15 new buildings at a total cost of $6 billion. As noted in Crain’s, as many as 6,000 jobs [...]
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