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Title: $5 mil for MU Engineering
Post by: Wareagle on January 04, 2010, 08:04:49 PM
MU just landed $5 million in state funding for the new engineering facility. 

MU also "has enough cash on hand to complete the first $35-million phase of the project, with ground breaking scheduled for March."

http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/80284457.html (http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/80284457.html)
Title: Re: $5 mil for MU Engineering
Post by: GGGG on January 04, 2010, 08:14:51 PM
Does this make us UW-Marquette now???
Title: Re: $5 mil for MU Engineering
Post by: CAINMUTINY on January 04, 2010, 08:24:31 PM
Didn't the dental school also receive state funding?

Title: Re: $5 mil for MU Engineering
Post by: bs4173 on January 04, 2010, 09:09:38 PM
Quote from: CAINMUTINY on January 04, 2010, 08:24:31 PM
Didn't the dental school also receive state funding?



Yes, but under some stipulations that they open up clinics for the community--so I've heard. My dentist graduated from MU, and he and one of his dental hygienists were talking about how the dental school was pretty much forced by the state to drop the dental hygienist program that we once had. The idea was that associates programs at technical schools like MATC could pick up the hygienist degree.

This engineering thing is interesting, though, because the administration was having a tough time pushing for this money a few months ago- http://dailyreporter.com/blog/2009/04/03/marquette-goes-it-alone-on-building-project/
Title: Re: $5 mil for MU Engineering
Post by: GGGG on January 04, 2010, 09:23:42 PM
They also take the money under the assumption that tuition would be kept lower since it is the only dental school in the state.
Title: Re: $5 mil for MU Engineering
Post by: WellsstreetWanderer on January 04, 2010, 09:49:44 PM
no government money ever comes without stipulations. take it and they exact their payment somehow
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