Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university

Re:Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university by ghaff on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @03:45PM (#23910213)

>A name on a university that's mentioned with Duke and MIT...now that's something you can brag about.

That's the rub though, isn't it. I'm not sure even Bezos has money that would be needed to pull that off over, say, a 10 year horizon. MIT has almost a $20 billion endowment to give some idea of the sorts of money flows we're talking about here. To say nothing of the fact that they already have the faculty, physical plant, reputation, etc.

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Re:Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university by bluedevil2k on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @03:52PM (#23910275)

That’s why I think they should donate (ie buy) an existing university and transform it. I’d go for Pepperdine, right in Malibu, near the beach, perfect weather, great architecture.

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Re:Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university by kyawzazaw on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:11PM (#23911528)

Stephen A. Schwarzman though.

He is barely 10% of Jeff Bezoz. Not just a name on a building either. A whole new program.

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Re:Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university by ghaff on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:54PM (#23911831)

Barely 10% :-)

But I actually agree. Why try to build a university from scratch even starting with an existing "tier 2" (whatever that means) school when you can get your name attached to a significant new initiative at an institution which already has a lot of prestige?

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