<p>^ Sparkeye, do you have a complete list (or source document) of the 34 programs that were to be reworked and which 5 were recommended for elimination? Thanks.</p>
<p>@zapino,</p>
<p>Unfortunately, no… But, I will keep you posted if I read or heard anything in the future!</p>
<p>Found this article instead from a ‘Pitt’ writer:</p>
<p>[Nebraska</a> falls short in Big Ten](<a href=“http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10166/1065686-143.stm]Nebraska”>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10166/1065686-143.stm)</p>
<p>I am surprised to find that Nebraska produces way less Doctorates (Phds) than its Big Ten peers on yearly basis.</p>
<p>Not surprising at all. At present N is not in the same zip code as the rest of the B10 in this category. It also has fewer undergrads going on to earn a doctorate. Maybe Warren B can change that a bit.</p>
<p>Your points on UVA’s biology department certainly dovetail with my daughter’s impression. She opted for pre-med at UNC-Chapel Hill after being underwhelmed with what UVA had to offer.</p>
<p>find the US News Rakings from 2000 a compare them to the current rankings. You’ll be able to track trends.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t call UVA and WUSTL “on the rise”. There’s a huge difference between those two and URichmond or Tulane, academically and in the Bible (USNWR rankings, haha), in my opinion. I agree about Wake Forest, although I wouldn’t say it’s at its peak…yet.</p>
<p>My take on the original question posed in this thread is based on the following assumptions:</p>
<p>(1) The schools that have the potential to “rise” the furthest are those that are not already well known or highly ranked. </p>
<p>(2) Given long-term economic trends, there will be growing interest in schools that offer strong educational value at relatively low cost. </p>
<p>(3) Based on these points, the schools to watch are small public colleges and universities that are currently not well known nationally, but which nonetheless stand out based on their selectivity and undergraduate focus. </p>
<p>In some states, there are small, “second-tier” public schools that have become as hard (or harder) to get into as the big-name state flagships – yet they offer the same low tuition, and better undergraduate teaching. I think this could become an increasingly attractive alternative in the future. Examples:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>The College of New Jersey. 6,200 undergrads. Higher SATs and lower acceptance rate than the “state flagships” of Rutgers or Penn State, yet with the same low public tuition. </p></li>
<li><p>Colorado School of Mines. 3,200 undergrads. Has risen in the USN&WR rankings recently, now at #72 for National Universities, vs. #86 for “flagship” University of Colorado-Boulder.</p></li>
<li><p>New College of Florida. 825 undergrads. ACT 27-30, vs 26-29 at “flagship” University of Florida. </p></li>
</ul>
<p>Other small public schools that might benefit from this trend might include St. Mary’s College of Maryland or Missouri S&T. This is by not necessarily a comprehensive list, and others may be able to nominate additional schools.</p>
<p>There may well be a successful niche for schools that combine the low tuition and high selectivity of a “flagship” state university with the small size and undergraduate teaching focus of a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>One of my super-smart nephews applied to Tulane. I was surprised, because he’s from Indiana, and , well – why Tulane? (We spent three years in Loozyana, BTW; my DH taught in a special state-funded boarding school for gifted teens in Natchitoches, La., and we knew many kids who went to Tulane.)</p>
<p>Anyway, we were recently talking to relatives, and we asked, “Why Tulane?” We were told that Tulane is definitely on the rise, that it has become a cool school to apply to, etc. We asked, “Why?” The answer: “Well, Katrina put it on the map. Now everyone has heard of it.” Seems an odd answer, but what the hey? ;-)</p>
<p>Tulane is a perfect example as to why this thread is not accurate. Tulane has dropped significantly in the last five years. It was once a great school, but a combination of Katrina, funding issues and general deprivation of New Orleans has resulted in a significant drop in the rankings of this university. </p>
<p>While it may one day rise, it is not currently rising. </p>
<p>If you are going to post a school on the rise, please come with some statistical information as to how the university has risen and is currently rising in US News.</p>
<p>informative - you equate “on the rise” with USNWR rankings. This is a huge mistake. USNWR uses parameters that Tulane cannot even currently report, such as 6 year graduation rates. They won’t next year either because Katrina will have been 6 years ago at that point, so that data is simply “lost”. It knocks them way down in this ranking, but if you get out of the myopic world of USNWR rankings, you would see that Tulane is indeed extremely on the rise. Some examples of this, but certainly not exhaustive:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>More applications than any other private university. And don’t give me the tired reason of the free apps and all that, there are many schools that do that and get nowhere near the attention from prospective students Tulane gets</p></li>
<li><p>Named by Carnegie Foundation as one of 4 schools to receive a $500,000 award for its excellence since Katrina</p></li>
<li><p>The president, Scott Cowen, being named by Time magazine as one of the top 10 university presidents today</p></li>
<li><p>The last three classes being the best academically in the school’s history</p></li>
<li><p>The last class was over target enrollment by 10%</p></li>
<li><p>The retention rates are the highest in the schools history (strange for a school that is sinking so far in such a deprived city), and quite high at 91+%.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>You are woefully misinformed on a couple of other issues as well. There are no funding issues as you describe. Like every school in the country the endowment took a hit from the financial crisis, but actually Tulane lost less on a percentage basis than many schools. Tulane is in solid shape financially. The statement you make about the “general deprivation” in New Orleans clearly demonstrates you have not been there recently. I have many times, and the city is a better place to live than pre-Katrina by a long shot. There are actually more restaurants today than pre-Katrina (surprisingly), but more importantly they have taken the opportunity to improve the infrastructure and the public school system is far better than it was. Sure, there are areas like the Ninth Ward that may never come back, but they are far from Tulane. While there is still work to do, the area around Tulane is in fine shape and wasn’t nearly as hard hit in the first place. In short, you have no idea what you are talking about.</p>
<p>Ohio State wins $100 million toward Medical Center expansion</p>
<p>Wednesday, December 29, 2010 03:13 PM
By Encarnacion Pyle</p>
<p>The Columbus Dispatch
Brooke LaValley | Dispatch</p>
<p>Ohio State University received a belated Christmas gift today: a $100 million grant that will add a radiation oncology center to its $1 billion Medical Center expansion.</p>
<p>“This is wonderful news. This is going to allow us to do something new – something that wasn’t even in our plans,” said Dr. Steven Gabbe, CEO of the Medical Center.</p>
<p>Ohio State beat out more than a half dozen other schools for the federal grant that was inserted into the health-care reform bill last year to finance construction at a university hospital.</p>
<p>“This unprecedented project will bring thousands of new jobs to central Ohio and further cement our state’s leadership in providing the highest quality of medical care,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, who announced the award this afternoon.</p>
<p>Campus officials said ProjectOne, the largest construction project in the university’s history, will position Ohio State to become a top-20 academic medical center.</p>
<p>It will create as many as 5,000 temporary construction jobs, 6,000 permanent jobs at the university and another 4,000 jobs at businesses near the campus by 2015, they said.</p>
<p>“This expansion will broaden the university’s reach by unifying cutting-edge education and research to ensure access to top-notch care for all Ohioans,” said Brown, who also wrote a letter supporting the school’s application for the competitive grant.</p>
<p>To finance the project, Ohio State is issuing $925 million in bonds and seeking $75 million in donations. The original goal was to have the $75 million in hand by the time the expansion is complete in 2014.</p>
<p>To be eligible for the federal money, Ohio State had to show that its Medical Center is critical to providing greater access to health care in the state. The grant money also could compromise no more than 40 percent of the total project cost, and the state had to prove it had a plan to cover the remainder of the cost.</p>
<p>The $100 million was inserted into the health-care overhaul bill by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat with ties to the University of Connecticut.</p>
<p>Connecticut leaders have said they need to the money to help pay a $362 million renovation and expansion of UConn’s John Dempsey Hospital. In June, Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed a law that set aside $240 million in state bonds to cover the majority of the construction cost as long as the university received the federal grant to pay the rest.</p>
<p>But Ohio State landed the grant.</p>
<p>The centerpiece for ProjectONE will be a 17-story tower that will include the Critical Care Center, the new James Cancer Hospital and the Richard J. Solove Research Institute. The project also includes new floors for the Ross Heart Hospital and other renovations.</p>
<p>Demolition of some buildings started last year. Ohio State officially broke ground on the project in June. The hospital tower is expected to be finished in 2014. </p>
<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/29/Ohio-State-wins-$100-million-medical-expansion.html?sid=101”>http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/29/Ohio-State-wins-$100-million-medical-expansion.html?sid=101</a></p>
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<p>TOSU Medical Center (including Cancer & Heart Centers) are all located literally next door to the College of Biological Sciences and Medical / Dental Schools as well as their respective research facilities. Hailed as the largest academic construction project ever in Ohio State’s history. Once completed, I expect to see a major advancement in breakthrough clinical researches as well as attracting some of the best faculties and researchers in the world to the relative Departments. :)</p>
<p>OSU Medical Center awarded $100M for expansion; proton therapy possible</p>
<p>Business First - by Carrie Ghose
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 3:55pm EST - Last Modified: Wednesday, </p>
<p>Ohio State University Medical Center’s expansion grew to $1.1 billion on Wednesday when it won a $100 million construction grant created in the federal health reform law.</p>
<p>CEO Dr. Steven Gabbe said the project now can add “the most advanced radiation therapy center in the country,” possibly including proton therapy. Only preliminary designs are in place and a site on the campus yet to be selected, he said, adding it will not compromise planned green space.</p>
<p>“It will enable us to recruit and retain the best people for cancer,” he said. “This is the place people will want to be, patients and providers, researchers, educators.”</p>
<p>The grant was intended for a public academic health center, and applicants had to show the new facility would expand access to health care and is essential to the financial viability of a state’s only public medical and dental school. Ohio has other public medical schools but no others with dental schools attached.</p>
<p>Six other institutions applied, Gabbe said. There were 27 eligible institutions, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration. Applications were scored by an outside committee of experts in health-care administration, facility design and construction, and finance, the agency said.</p>
<p>The amount of the grant could not exceed 40 percent of a project cost under the law, and the applicant …</p>
<p>Ohio State University Medical Center’s expansion grew to $1.1 billion on Wednesday when it won a $100 million construction grant created in the federal health reform law.</p>
<p>CEO Dr. Steven Gabbe said the project now can add “the most advanced radiation therapy center in the country,” possibly including proton therapy. Only preliminary designs are in place and a site on the campus yet to be selected, he said, adding it will not compromise planned green space.</p>
<p>“It will enable us to recruit and retain the best people for cancer,” he said. “This is the place people will want to be, patients and providers, researchers, educators.”</p>
<p>The grant was intended for a public academic health center, and applicants had to show the new facility would expand access to health care and is essential to the financial viability of a state’s only public medical and dental school. Ohio has other public medical schools but no others with dental schools attached.</p>
<p>Six other institutions applied, Gabbe said. There were 27 eligible institutions, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration. Applications were scored by an outside committee of experts in health-care administration, facility design and construction, and finance, the agency said.</p>
<p>The amount of the grant could not exceed 40 percent of a project cost under the law, and the applicant had to show it has a dedicated funding source for the rest. Ohio State is paying for most of its $1 billion expansion project with bonds.</p>
<p>Ohio State’s largest-ever capital project got under way in earnest in June. It includes a $649 million, 420-bed critical care and cancer hospital expected to open in 2014.</p>
<p>Gabbe said the application emphasized how the hospital’s design integrates space for clinical research and medical student education into patient care area.</p>
<p>“That was a critical part of this grant,” he said.</p>
<p>U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, also stressed that collaboration in a letter supporting the school’s application.</p>
<p>“This integrated approach to personalized medicine holds the promise of speeding the translation of research into tangible results in patient care,” he said in the letter, which also outlined the poor health status of Ohioans and noted that the current 1,180-bed OSU Medical Center is straining capacity.</p>
<p>The project earlier won a 15-year city of Columbus tax incentive worth up to $35 million based on creating about 5,600 permanent new jobs.</p>
<p>Proton returns?</p>
<p>The cancer facility would include the latest linear accelerators and possibly the capability for proton therapy, which involves aiming the charged atomic particles at a precisely mapped tumor while sparing healthy tissue.</p>
<p>“We haven’t decided that yet, but it’s something we’re considering,” Gabbe said.</p>
<p>Columbus’ four hospital systems have been meeting for two years on whether to build a joint proton therapy center, despite questions by insurers and medical experts on whether the costly technology is the best approach.</p>
<p>Gabbe and the CEOs of OhioHealth Corp., Mount Carmel Health System and Nationwide Children’s Hospital have met periodically as part of the Central Ohio Hospital Council.As of early this month, they had yet to reach a decision because of looming questions about insurance reimbursement, especially under federal insurance reform, council President Jeff Klingler said. Advances in technology meanwhile have shrunk both the size and cost of equipment for such centers, which once needed accelerators the size of a football field but now can fit in a typical outpatient building.</p>
<p>A feasibility study by the four and nonprofit research organization Battelle indicated that the center would have a greater chance of succeeding if attached to one of the hospitals rather than as a freestanding facility, with all four still cooperating, he said. The group has been awaiting word on OSU’s grant since then.</p>
<p>“It certainly gives momentum to the initiative,” Klingler said. “There’s still a lot of unanswered questions.”</p>
<p>“If we do proton therapy, this would be available to all the patients in Central Ohio,” he said. “We would want to work in cooperation with all the health systems.”</p>
<p>Read Full Article</p>
<p>Read more: [OSU</a> Medical Center awarded $100M for expansion; proton therapy possible | Business First](<a href=“http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2010/12/29/osu-medical-center-awarded-100m-in.html]OSU”>http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2010/12/29/osu-medical-center-awarded-100m-in.html)</p>
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<p>Excuse me!!! For those not in the medical field, I’d like to inform you that there are currently only a handful of Proton Therapy Centers (most advance minimal invasive cancer radiation therapy besides the experimental Heavy-Ion Therapy in Japan) in America due to the extreme high cost of equipment, construction and operation. I am overjoyed to say the least both as a young physician and a buckeye alum. Therefore, two posts on this related topic. 
I would like to compare this breakingnews as more significant than say Mr. Ross who donated $100 million to Michigan’s new business school a few years back! Go Bucks!! lol</p>
<p>Sparkeye. I know you love tOSU to pieces, but enough with the PSA’s already. To compare a private donation of $100,000,000.00 to a federal grant of the same amount is not fair. Also, you are comparing a business building to a hospital. As a young physician, you really don’t want to compare the hospitals at Michigan with the one’s at the tOSU. Let’s be honest, The University of Michigan BLOWS away tOSU as both a medical school and hospital complex. </p>
<p>[Research</a> Rankings - Best Medical Schools - Graduate Schools - Education - US News](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/research-rankings]Research”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/research-rankings)</p>
<p>[Best</a> Hospitals 2010-11: The Honor Roll - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2010/07/14/best-hospitals-2010-11-the-honor-roll.html]Best”>http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2010/07/14/best-hospitals-2010-11-the-honor-roll.html)</p>
<p>Also this statement from above doesn’t sound like the “proton therapy center” is a done deal just yet:</p>
<p>“CEO Dr. Steven Gabbe said the project now can add “the most advanced radiation therapy center in the country,” possibly including proton therapy.”</p>
<p>^^ Fair enough. Any latest from the almighty Univeristy of Michigan Health System on this contingent issue? It’s been awhile since…</p>
<p>Link: [‘U</a>’ to pioneer cancer treatment | The Michigan Daily](<a href=“http://www.michigandaily.com/content/u-pioneer-cancer-treatment]'U”>'U' to pioneer cancer treatment)</p>
<p>P.S. We are grateful to have Dr. Gabbe, a reknown Princetonian/Cornellian physician, right arm of President Gee from Vanderbilt to join The Ohio State Medical Center and as our commander-in-chief for ‘Project One.’ Go Bucks! :)</p>
<p>Its pretty interesting how perceptions of various schools have changed over the past several years. As the competition increased for a limited number of slots at more elite schools, I think a lot of changes in perception had to do with people trying to expand the pool of acceptable options. Also, the popularity of certain majors (e.g., neuroscience) has raised the status of some schools that excel in those fields. </p>
<p>Entirely off the top of my head (and, probably my perception is skewed by what I see on CC) …</p>
<p>Here are some schools whose positive public perception I think has risen in the past several years:
Alabama
Ohio State
St. Olaf
Elon
Mid-rank UCs (perhaps due to popularity of certain fields like cognitive science/neuroscience)
U Washington (perhaps due to its excellence in health care fields)
Richmond
Pittsburgh (Part of the improved perception is the popularity of neuroscience as a major)
Tulane (declined after Katrina, then rebounded)
William & Mary (always perceived a public Ivy but now even more so and more on the radar outside its region)
Virginia (same as W & M)
Illinois at Chicago
Rose-Hulman
Grand Valley State (becoming popular with kids in the Chicago area)<br>
Colorado Mines
Clemson
Lewis & Clark
Trinity (TX)</p>
<p>Interesting what schools havent risen and continue to be underrated: Indiana (though the Kelley School has risen and the Music School arguably is #1); Valparaiso (despite a great honors college); Minnesota; Calvin; Hope; Creighton; Delaware; Colorado State; Iowa State; Kansas State</p>
<p>Interesting what schools perhaps seem to have declined in public perception: Case Western Reserve; Lehigh; Bucknell; Lafayette; Vassar; Syracuse (despite the Maxwell and Newhouse Schools)</p>
<p>Now if Wisconsin would only sell the naming rights to its business school, give it a few years and itll give Kelley a run for its money </p>
<p>"Any latest from the almighty Univeristy of Michigan Health System on this contingent issue? It’s been awhile since…'</p>
<p>Not that I am aware of. In the meantime the university just got a grant for this:</p>
<p>[U-M</a> Cancer Center gets $10.7M grant to study colon, pancreas cancers | University of Michigan Health System](<a href=“http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1874]U-M”>http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1874)</p>
<p>Since that date the university has also started these projects:</p>
<p>[U-M</a> Architecture, Engineering and Construction Project Overview -](<a href=“http://www.umaec.umich.edu/projects/ChildrensWomens/index.html]U-M”>http://www.umaec.umich.edu/projects/ChildrensWomens/index.html)</p>
<p>and it is heavily invested in this one. </p>
<p>[North</a> Campus Research Complex :: University of Michigan](<a href=“http://www.umresearchgrowth.org/index.html]North”>http://www.umresearchgrowth.org/index.html)</p>
<p>All these things, and more, are keeping Michigan among the leaders and best in the area of health care. Go Blue! LOL. :-)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.umaec.umich.edu/campus.maps/constructionfencing/Medical%20Center%20Campus%20Construction%20Fence%20Map.pdf[/url]”>http://www.umaec.umich.edu/campus.maps/constructionfencing/Medical%20Center%20Campus%20Construction%20Fence%20Map.pdf</a></p>
<p>^^ Great!!! Believe or not, I would be just as thrill had Michigan or Wiksy won the $100 mil from the Feds and decided to build a Proton Therapy Center instead of UConn or other school outside of Big Ten country. Call me a Big Ten homer, I don’t mind (in fact, I’d be proud)!! :p</p>
<p>^^^Did you look at the map of the Michigan medical campus Sparkeye? Notice the highly ranked (all top 10) medical, dental, nursing, public health, and pharmacy schools are all fairly close to each other? Go Blue! LOL. ;-)</p>
<p>^^ I don’t need the map… Didn’t I tell you all that I grew up 20mins outside of Ann Arbor? I know North Campus like the palm of my hand… @_@"</p>