Tuesday, October 11, 2011

An Interesting Idea

New York City is not Palo Alto. So one wondered what will happen when Stanford joins the old CCNY to create a high tech university in the City (yes, this is a picture of the GW Bridge taken from Manhattan).

Stanford announced:

In response to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's call to strengthen that city's economy by creating a world-class applied science and engineering school, Stanford President John L. Hennessy, The City University of New York Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and City College President Lisa S. Coico today announced the creation of the Stanford-CUNY Collaboration at City College, or Stanford@CCNY.


Joining East and West Coast resources in an innovative new arrangement, Stanford@CCNY has the potential to offer the students and faculties of both universities transformative opportunities to partner at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral level and would provide start-up space for Stanford's proposed applied science campus.

New York used to have a great engineering school at CCNY but somehow it has mellowed, Brooklyn Poly got absorbed into NYU and will most likely be displaced to Long Island, Columbia is well, Columbia, and there really is not much else, yes Manhattan College in the Bronx is a Catholic college but it has a mediocre at best engineering department, which generally was a feeder for city engineers and Con Ed.

So it will be interesting to see what happens. NYC is rather ethnic, just look at Poly, and it is a rather more intense mix than Palo Alto. It will be interesting to watch.