Recognizing the trend of off-campus coffee joints and eateries giving way to their on-campus counterparts, I posed a question to a high administrator at Harvard a few years ago: Why does the university insist on building facilities that are seemingly geared toward keeping students on campus, rather than encouraging them to venture out into the real world?
By the time I went back to college in the fall and moved into a beautiful old half-wrecked farmhouse off campus, I was soaked in the oils of my own manufactured delirium.
On campus, I watched the well-fed, sane, secure, shiny-haired, and leather-belted students pass me by.
Recognizing that the Livermore region was also in need of additional academic opportunities, I helped create the Academic Alliance which brings together academic and research institutions to support the mission of i-GATE, the Labs, the Livermore Valley Open Campus.
In my generation, the gender breakdown on campus is nearly 50-50, and I never felt even a little unwelcome as a woman.
And he said to me, you know, the saddest thing is when - he said I have had parents show up on this campus with their kid in tow, challenging this decision.
It sports the nicest corporate campus I've ever seen, with an Olympic-size swimming pool, child-care centers and a 35-hour workweek.
Hunting for an e-bike, I ended up at a string of shops near the Tsinghua campus, where each storefront offered a competing range of prices and styles to a clientele dominated by students and young families.
One explanation, I'm quite confident, is that more universities have built and now operate on-campus cafes and grilles.
The new campus is adjacent to The Outlets at Traverse Mountain, just off of I-15 at exit 284, and was created for Adobe by the San Francisco-based architecture and planning firm of WRNS Studio.
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I'm skeptical that student comfort and convenience provide a complete answer for the proliferation of these on-campus accommodations.
Raytheon has a sprawling campus near Newport that develops electronic systems for U.S. warships, and as you travel I-95 through the state capital of Providence you will see the high-rise headquarters of military supplier Textron looming above Westminster Street near the highway.
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"I love the idea of an urban corporate campus with all the energy and variety that provides, " Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted last February, after opening his company's new headquarters in a formerly derelict Art Deco building in San Francisco's Mid-Market neighborhood.
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