To Attract the Next Google, New York City Seeks to Create an Engineering School

Re:To Attract the Next Google, New York City Seeks to Create... by yummyfajitas on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:34PM (#2013273)

I didn't mean to suggest that I think this project has a significant chance of success. I just assign a much lower success probability to throwing money at one of the existing schools which have already failed.

By the way, the local politicians are already quite willing to take property from other people (by force) in order to help a university expand: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/12/13/us-supreme-court...

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Re:To Attract the Next Google, New York City Seeks to Create... by forgotAgain on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:47PM (#2013324)

existing schools which have already failed.

I'm sorry but how exactly have those schools failed?

the local politicians are already quite willing to take property from other people (by force) in order to help a university expand:

Expansion plans that take a decade to get government approval doesn't imply "quite willing to take property". Everybody involved plays the situation to their own advantage.

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Re:To Attract the Next Google, New York City Seeks to Create... by yummyfajitas on Thursday December 16, 2010 @04:53PM (#2013904)

I'm sorry but how exactly have those schools failed?

They have failed to become top engineering schools and create a Stanford/MIT-like community.

Expansion plans that take a decade to get government approval doesn't imply "quite willing to take property".

It didn't take 10 years to get government approval, it took 10 years for the government to take property from people against their will. What exactly are you advocating for? Giving our corporate/university overlords the power to steal your land 30 days or less?

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