Even if the 15-20 year stuff is pure conjecture... the idea that the administration is thinking about additions to Burton indicates, to me at least, that there is no plan to emphasize football.
“The last push was to become the ‘university of choice’ for undergraduate recruitment and retention,” she says. “We’ve done a great job with that, and the classroom buildings and the residence halls and the Student Union expansion – things that were done with UConn 2000 – were aimed at this goal of excellence in undergraduate education.
“While we want to maintain all of that, we have this additional focus now on doing the same thing with our research and graduate education.”
“The last push was to become the ‘university of choice’ for undergraduate recruitment and retention,” she says. “We’ve done a great job with that, and the classroom buildings and the residence halls and the Student Union expansion – things that were done with UConn 2000 – were aimed at this goal of excellence in undergraduate education.
“While we want to maintain all of that, we have this additional focus now on doing the same thing with our research and graduate education.”
Couple of thoughts/observations looking at the draft master plan
- Very visible location for the hockey arena; but, not near parking and my gut is that the Mansfield locals will not like it
Oops I meant no plan to de-emphasize football. For some reason I cant find the edit button.What are you talking about?
Oops I meant no plan to de-emphasize football. For some reason I cant find the edit button.
Ah, so.
The edit button goes away after 15 minutes or so - edited it for you.
To the poster above, it clearly states that the Hockey Arena will have a parking garage. Plus, a Garage at Storrs Center. Exciting stuff.
At what point does the state make a deal with the Town of Mansfield and district 19 for E.O Smith? With this plan, down the road I can see UCONN buying all the property from Campus down to 275.
Some observations:
- 6 new buildings under Nextgen and some renovations for $1.5b. Original plan that was outlined implied over a dozen new buildings plus renos, including new facilities for general classroom space. Equipment is now a huge outlay.
- now hedging on commitment to add 5000 add'l undergrads to Storrs enrollment
- laser focus in this document on building facilities for research and graduate programs
Seems like the focus of nextgen switched from undergrad to heavily grad school focused since the original Nextgen announcement. Demographic realities or b1g intentions?
Actually ... if you dig a little, the 5000 add may be 6500 per a couple of Public documents and Courant articles.
The Sensitivity is there: Out-of-State would go up to 37-38% from today's 28%. That is on par with peers Nationally. And, more internationals. I can tell you land use is in the crosshairs.
I think the 6500 figure was total undergrad enrollment increase including Stamford. With up to 5000 at storrs. Since the nextgen plan was announced I have seen articles touting an increase in grad school enrollment, too; so I speculate that tradeoffs were necessary to weigh new buildings with cutting edge equipment. Thus capacity to house and teach undergrads has been managed down some. But who knows...