I’m so tired of centralization of EVERYTHING. It’s no longer enough to be a great institution in one city; now, everything has to have footprints nationally and internationally. Before attacking this by explaining the details of this particular project, just look at the fact that this process is happening with every major academic and medical institution. And with it never comes the hopes for increase in access or decrease in cost; quite the contrary. This is a dangerous trend that only is a harbinger of the fact that in 30-40 years we can probably expect to have a major reduction in the diversity of institutions as more and more expand their brand to campuses all over. Diversity = good; centralization = bad.
The Roux Institute was established with $200,000,000 in gifts from wealthy Maine residents so it does not impact Northeastern's finances. These Mainers noticed that STEM education, which is the wave of the future, was not widespread in higher education in the state. Roux will become a source of graduate STEM education for a very underserved state.
Funny that it's going to be so isolated from Portland, cut off by highways and water.
Probably means the concentration of universities into fewer and fewer private schools that control more and more of the system. This is clearly happening and is part of the broader changes in the higher education system in general which has seen increased tuition, greater reliance on adjuncts, union busting, and increased administrative salaries.
Darwin himself would disagree with this level of misunderstanding of what survival of the fittest means. If you want to talk about the relevance of evolution to fields like education, the well documented evolutionary advantageous traits (relevant for a social species such as Homo Sapiens always) of cooperation, symbiosis, and mutual aid are crucial.
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I love Northeastern, but I’m sorry: that is f*cking outrageous! I lived in a single in International Village the first year it opened—all 144 sq. ft of it. To ‘double-up’ occupancy in 700 of those singles is downright cruel. No privacy in units; longer queuing times for the elevators (which can already be a 5-7 minute wait for the 1200 residents); and with no kitchen facilities, the International Village dining hall will also be busier prepping 60% more meals for residents.View attachment 18254
Due to 1,200 students of overenrollment, they are proposing densifying the existing dorms in the short term.
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Institutional Master Plan Notification Form (IMPNF) for Expedited Amendment of the Northeastern University IMP to increase the bed count in two existing on-campus dormitories.
That's actually in the works IIRC with their recent acquisition of Mills College out on the west coast. Unlike the rest of their satellite campuses, I think they plan to offer quite a decent number of undergrad programs out there once they integrate the school in.
New College for the Humanities in London operates as a university in the British system. It also hosts visiting students from Boston from NUIn etc. Mills College will operate as a liberal arts college with opportunities for Boston students to participate. The 135 acre campus has plenty of space for other Northeastern programs.
For this current admissions cycle Northeastern needs to cut the targeted freshman class from 2800 to 2000 and the targeted NUIn class from 900 to maybe 500 for at least one year. This would give the university a single digit acceptance rate! Since it is still uncertain if all the overseas locations of NUIn will be available, especially Australia, cuts need to be made. NUIn Boston worked the past 2 years because Boston hotels were mostly empty and they rented them cheap. That will likely not be an option next Fall.
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