SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 19, 2024 15:39:25 GMT -5
The past few years have seen a fraternity-style rush of American universities planting their flags or significantly boosting their landholdings in Washington, including five in 2023 alone: Texas A&M, the University of Southern California, Purdue, Princeton and Johns Hopkins, which spent $372 million to buy the majestic former Newseum building on Pennsylvania Avenue and turn it into its Bloomberg Center, “where Washington comes to think.” www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/19/university-washington-dc-outposts-00153180 |
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1789
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Post by 1789 on Apr 30, 2024 9:12:08 GMT -5
We can add to that Pepperdine, University of Utah, Arizona State University, Northeastern (in Roslyn). It may be a good opportunity for the schools as commercial real estate opens up downtown.
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Post by reformation on Apr 30, 2024 15:56:57 GMT -5
Maybe Georgetown should look at doing exchanges with some other US colleges--I can remember a bunch of girls from Wellesley doing a year or semester at Gtwn when I was there in the 80's. We could pick places with big time STEM programs and the kids from the other colleges could take 2 or 3 classes at Gtwn and get an internship. Might work well for both sides.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 30, 2024 16:49:18 GMT -5
Maybe Georgetown should look at doing exchanges with some other US colleges--I can remember a bunch of girls from Wellesley doing a year or semester at Gtwn when I was there in the 80's. We could pick places with big time STEM programs and the kids from the other colleges could take 2 or 3 classes at Gtwn and get an internship. Might work well for both sides. I assume this joint program is still active? college.georgetown.edu/academics/majors-minors-and-certificates/science-engineering/ |
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Apr 30, 2024 19:49:17 GMT -5
Yes, but it's not what it was. This isn't a Georgetown-specific program, however. In fact, nearly 90 universities are now listed on the Columbia web site as participants, with examples including Adelphi, Goucher, Providence, and Oberlin, among others. In 2019, Columbia changed the program from open admissions to a "competitive review process", which apparently has significantly reduced enrollment. A document on its web site reports that just four visiting students were enrolled in its undergraduate engineering programs in the fall of 2022. Exchange programs like this are a net-add for tuition but, in Georgetown's case, can also impact the enrollment cap. Brining in a dozen students from other schools to Georgetown would essentially take a dozen Georgetown students off the main campus as the cap goes. The Capital Campus may be an option at some future point. |
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Post by reformation on May 1, 2024 13:53:55 GMT -5
Georgetown 4 or 5 kids a year to the Columbia program--demand has been increasing from Gtwn students. I would not be surprised to have Gtwn set up additional programs with other Univ's, e.g. Dartmouth, Caltech etc.
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