06-05-2013, 04:14 PM
If housing on campus is so bad, then just find a place in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Sunnyvale, Atherton, East Palo Alto or Redwood City. After all, at most USA universities a large percentage of undergrad students actually elect to live off campus. And at most schools, I would guess the majority grad students live off campus. So no problem hit El Camino kids. ;)
Oh right, for all the whining about housing the reality is that there is no better housing option in Silicon Valley. In fact the off-campus options are so inferior and/or so expensive that everyone wants to live on campus. When I graduated I would have happily lived on-campus rather than the dump I could afford in Redwood City for my first year.
Space on-campus is available, it is just a matter of building the facilities (and parking) rather than a new high end auditorium. I suspect donor preferences are not aligned with that goal though.
Back in the 80s and 90s there was a concern over demographics and education. There were preciously few elite universities starting up, and those elite universities that were established were not expanding. So as the country was growing it was becoming harder and harder to get into high quality private research universities.
We all celebrated 5.69%, but I suspect politically that is a problem. Much like allocating some funds to financial aid to get Congress out of the endowment management business, I suspect we will see the top 15-20 universities in the USA begin to entertain undergrad enrollment expansion projects too.
Oh right, for all the whining about housing the reality is that there is no better housing option in Silicon Valley. In fact the off-campus options are so inferior and/or so expensive that everyone wants to live on campus. When I graduated I would have happily lived on-campus rather than the dump I could afford in Redwood City for my first year.
Space on-campus is available, it is just a matter of building the facilities (and parking) rather than a new high end auditorium. I suspect donor preferences are not aligned with that goal though.
Back in the 80s and 90s there was a concern over demographics and education. There were preciously few elite universities starting up, and those elite universities that were established were not expanding. So as the country was growing it was becoming harder and harder to get into high quality private research universities.
We all celebrated 5.69%, but I suspect politically that is a problem. Much like allocating some funds to financial aid to get Congress out of the endowment management business, I suspect we will see the top 15-20 universities in the USA begin to entertain undergrad enrollment expansion projects too.