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.
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