UNT continues expansion in Frisco

[GrayEagle]

On 5/4/2018 at 4:55 PM, dmaxel said:

I hope so. I'd maybe be more OK with it if there were examples of other universities doing the same and having it be beneficial to them.

The University of Houston has a somewhat similar situation.  They have a campus downtown and one in Clear Lake near NASA.  They also have a campus in Victoria.

[GrayEagle]

On 5/15/2018 at 3:45 PM, EagleMBA said:

And then they wonder why it is so hard to get all those alumni to engage after graduation. I would think that prolonged experiences like cited above would tend to give one a bad case of the "giveashits".

Not that I necessarily disagree but I believe that you quoted a bad example.  It obviously didn't deter ogs as I can tell from his numerous posts.  I wish that we had about ten thousand "giveashits" of his quality.

[EagleMBA]

1 hour ago, GrayEagle said:

Not that I necessarily disagree but I believe that you quoted a bad example.  It obviously didn't deter ogs as I can tell from his numerous posts.  I wish that we had about ten thousand "giveashits" of his quality.

Agree with everything you said. I don't think I articulated my opinion correctly. What I felt was that "bouncing from pillar to post" and not forming a sense of community and allegiance to one's alma mater might result from repeated semesters of his experience. We are all different but speaking for myself, I might have been at risk of developing a case of the "giveashits".

[Stix]

9 hours ago, GrayEagle said:

The University of Houston has a somewhat similar situation.  They have a campus downtown and one in Clear Lake near NASA.  They also have a campus in Victoria.

Those are all separate universities within the UH System.  They also have several "centers" around the area which all of the universities share.  There is a center here in Sugar Land, which the city of SL has an agreement with the system to eventually be another university.

[MrStrange18]

9 hours ago, Stix said:

Those are all separate universities within the UH System.  They also have several "centers" around the area which all of the universities share.  There is a center here in Sugar Land, which the city of SL has an agreement with the system to eventually be another university.

Yes... I would be interested to read the fine print on this deal.  Are we ponying up to pay for the building or are we "leasing" it? I could see this being an agreement for a few years with the city of Frisco, that if we pulled out, another institution could hop in there.