Sure. It's $3B for your school. Who gives a shit what names the buildings have on them. I'll never understand you whiners.

$2B for new Miami campus (could have been in NYC, but well ...) $1B - split w $500M for CS Dept - for Pittsburg campus

"CMU Miami will invert the traditional higher education model by organizing learning and inquiry around societal challenges rather than academic majors. It will be entirely designed and built — from first blueprints to final beam — to drive revolutionary breakthroughs that address society’s defining challenges."

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duped 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

$3 billion dollars from a weirdo that fled to Florida because he was too cheap to pay his taxes, establishing a school to train more weirdos like him, a thousand miles from the actual school and presumably with different curricula/professors/degrees sounds like he's just buying CMU's name for legitimacy on his experimental anti-education project.

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BoggleOhYeah 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If anything, it could have been in Chicago but Kenny ran to Miami after spending a small fortune trying to install another puppet in the Illinois governor’s office after his previous one, Bruce Rauner, ran the state into the gutter.

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alephnerd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ken played a role in bringing the UIUC CS program to Chicago which itself is a major feeder into Citadel. Citadel was one of the founding partners for City Scholars [0] along with DRW and Ocient.

[0] - https://cityscholars.grainger.illinois.edu/

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BoggleOhYeah 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Considering that push into Chicago started with Rauner, I’m not surprised.

It was suppose to also include a large campus in the Loop but that floundered for years and was eventually cancelled when UIUC decided to instead be a partner in the new quantum computing center on the south side.

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shimman 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are we suppose to feel good that more bright students are working for deeply undemocratic and anti-human companies? I'd rather these people do something more productive than helping financiers make slightly more billions of dollars.

What a complete waste of human capacity if so.

	▲	alephnerd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is up to the students and alums of these programs. And many do non-profit and humanitarian work as well. The world is competitive. It is what it is. To have the power to affect change you need power.