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Hoping to replicate our Apple in The Big Apple, New York City has invited Stanford University to consider creating an engineering school in the city that would confer a Silicon Valley degree in the global center of culture and commerce.</p>
<p>"Stanford has served as an intellectual incubator for the emergence of Silicon Valley and has the potential to do so again," said Stanford president John Hennessy, announcing the news at Thursday's Academic Senate meeting.</p>
<p>"The concept as laid out by New York plays to many of our strengths, particularly the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit that characterizes this university," he said. "The challenge is one that Stanford is highly qualified, perhaps uniquely qualified, to take."
New York does not have a top-ranked applied science research and graduate school, despite its 630,000 students. Without that, it has fallen behind the Bay Area, Boston and other regions in its efforts to attract new high-tech companies -- and the jobs they create.
For Stanford, "the advantages are several," said Hennessy. "Remember that we are a university that serves the nation. And I think, taking a page out of the president's State of the Union address, this is a chance for the university to create a center of innovation and vibrancy that offers the kind of economic growth that exists in Silicon Valley
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<p>Anyone heard about this before? It would be amazing to be able to earn a Stanford degree in New York City.</p>
<p>“New York does not have a top-ranked applied science research and graduate school”
Oh REALLY?? COLUMBIA does not count?? news to me[ and them I’m sure]
What the NYTimes article REALLY SAID was
“Despite being home to more college students than any other city in the country, New York does not have a top-rated graduate school of engineering on a par with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Stanford University. Without one, the city has fallen far behind San Francisco, Boston and other metropolitan areas in the competition to attract new technology companies and the jobs they create, city officials said.”
<a href=“New York City Seeks Engineering Campus on City Land - The New York Times”>New York City Seeks Engineering Campus on City Land - The New York Times;
<p>That is QUITE DIFFERENT than not having “a top-ranked applied science research and graduate school”
Get it straight people…</p>
<p>This is just strange. I wouldn’t want to see Stanford on the east coast. I think it’s west coast location makes it extremely unique among the top tier schools.</p>
No, Columbia does not count. Rank #18 Engineering is not “top-ranked” by many people’s standards. “Top-ranked” in its literal meaning must be competitive with #1 and Columbia is nowhere near MIT or Stanford. -.-</p>
<p>^^I KNOW that Columbia’s Engineering school is not “top ranked”. What I was referring to when I said Oh Really??-was the original quote from above that said" top-ranked applied science research and graduate school"
Columbia’s Medical School certainly qualifies as a “top ranked science research and graduate school”
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<p>Does it really matter that the NY Times originally wrote something different from what was reported by the local news source? </p>
<p>What matters is that the Bloomberg administration put out a request to higher education institutions around the world to submit plans to build a top-tier applied-science facility. </p>
<p>Obviously, the Bloomberg administration seems to think it is necessary to look beyond the capabilities and capacity of schools such as Columbia or NYU.</p>
<p>Re-creating New York is even more difficult. Bloomberg knows he’s got a unique asset, and is taking Machiavellian steps to increase its value. He’s already got NYU and Columbia. He’s trying to build an empire, while jabbing the NYC institutions with his rhetoric regarding the “void” of scientific entrepreneurship. If the Pied Piper music of Wall Street weren’t so powerful, engineers and applied scientists from places like Columbia might be more interested in scientific entrepreneurship. Let’s see how scientists from a place like Stanford behave once they breath the Wall Street air.</p>
<p>Long before there was a Silicon Valley and before the faculty at Stanford conceived of creating a local electronics industry, Bell Laboratories in NYC was the most advanced center for electronics research and development in the world. They had operations there between 1898 and 1966. In fact, Stanford graduates were leaving CA for jobs in the east like at Bell Labs. By the 1960s, Bell Labs had left the city for more abundant and cheaper space in New Jersey. </p>
<p>In seeing this proposal, I can’t help but think that Stanford’s campus sits on 8100 acres, while all of Manhattan is 14,700 acres.</p>
<p>Silicon Valley needed vast tracks of undeveloped land to be available for quick development into R&D facilities and manufacturing facilities. Land is just too sparse and expensive in NYC. Bloomberg may well be stimulating the economy of NJ by doing this.</p>
<p>I also believe the efforts to establish a campus in NYC would likely take the focus away from Stanford retaining its current leadership position in engineering. Meanwhile, MIT continues to focus on advancing its already lead position right in its own Cambridge campus.</p>
<p>It kinda makes NY look very 3rd rate and backward—like it can’t build a great applied sciences school on its own, but has to buy or import one, like some Gulf shiekdom. John Sexton is sure appreciate the irony.</p>
<p>The title of the article is misleading as the city didn’t ask Stanford or any particular school to build a facility there, but rather submit a RFP. MIT, along with Cornell, among others, are also considering the opportunity.</p>
<p>The field is Engineering, Materials Science.</p>
<p>The cadidates for “Oh Wow! You researched THERE?”</p>
<p>MIT
Purdue
Ga Tech
UC Berkeley
MIT
Stanford
Michigan
UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>Guess which one is tops, no real debate, consensus #1? Of course it only matters if you are a Materials Engineer, but then again, if you are, it matters everything.</p>