By the time Fall '18 arrives, our campus will have undergone a massive expansion. To date, over $288M have been announced in brick & mortar (exclusive of renovations or minor additions)
- $104M Student Rec Ctr, et al ('18)
$62M Student Rec Ctr Facility
$24M Parking Garage
$18M Land Bridge
http://m.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/20...tml?r=full
- $53M Richardson Tower Replacement (Fall '15)
https://web0.memphis.edu/mediaroom/relea...cehall.htm
- $36M Bio Research Hub (Fall '15)
https://web0.memphis.edu/development/biohub.php
- $25M BBall Facility
http://nationswright.com/projects/sports...r-facility
- $10M FBall Facility
http://nationswright.com/projects/sports...e-facility
- $60M School of Nursing & Audiology (Fall '15)
http://web0.memphis.edu/development/camp...commhealth

(06-28-2014 08:41 AM)NDTiger Wrote:  By the time Fall '18 arrives, our campus will have undergone a massive expansion. To date, over $288M have been announced in brick & mortar (exclusive of renovations or minor additions)
- $104M Student Rec Ctr, et al ('18)
$62M Student Rec Ctr Facility
$24M Parking Garage
$18M Land Bridge
http://m.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/20...tml?r=full
- $53M Richardson Tower Replacement ('15)
http://www.memphis.edu/mediaroom/release...cehall.htm
- $36M Bio Research Hub ('15)
http://www.memphis.edu/development/biohub.php
- $25M BBall Facility
http://nationswright.com/projects/sports...r-facility
- $10M FBall Facility
http://nationswright.com/projects/sports...e-facility
- $60M School of Nursing & Audiology
http://www.memphis.edu/mediaroom/release...health.php

Very nice! Will definitely upscale the campus even further. I get back to Memphis a couple if times a year (for one football and one basketball game, usually) and have noticed the really nice improvements over the years, since my '82 graduation. I hope to go to Memphis more often after retirement in a few years. Nothing like Memphis barbecue and Tiger sports!

Awesome stuff!

Is there a Campus Master Plan map including the dates of completion for all of these projects?

The Nursing program will have 1,100 nursing students. It is a large number consider my daughter's nursing program only has 40 students.

(06-28-2014 12:42 PM)ballhog Wrote:  Is there a Campus Master Plan map including the dates of completion for all of these projects?

The new master plan is supposed to come outthis fall

There is another Vision Forum coming this fall.

Quote: Today the U of M educates more than 22,000 students, and it awards more than 4,000 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees annually.

In the community health building link...

For a city with health disparities we need our own a med school and dental school.

(06-28-2014 06:55 PM)Stammers Wrote:  

Quote: Today the U of M educates more than 22,000 students, and it awards more than 4,000 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees annually.

In the community health building link...

(06-28-2014 08:18 PM)ChapelHillTiger Wrote:  For a city with health disparities we need our own a med school and dental school.

(06-28-2014 06:55 PM)Stammers Wrote:  

Quote: Today the U of M educates more than 22,000 students, and it awards more than 4,000 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees annually.

In the community health building link...

Ain't gonna be another state sponsored Med School in Memphis anytime Soon, Doubt the Big Orange will give up their outpost in their most hated city ..

BUT ..

I wonder if anything along the lines of IUPUI is possible ...

(06-28-2014 08:41 AM)NDTiger Wrote:  By the time Fall '18 arrives, our campus will have undergone a massive expansion. To date, over $288M have been announced in brick & mortar (exclusive of renovations or minor additions)
- $104M Student Rec Ctr, et al ('18)
$62M Student Rec Ctr Facility
$24M Parking Garage
$18M Land Bridge
http://m.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/20...tml?r=full
- $53M Richardson Tower Replacement ('15)
http://www.memphis.edu/mediaroom/release...cehall.htm
- $36M Bio Research Hub ('15)
http://www.memphis.edu/development/biohub.php
- $25M BBall Facility
http://nationswright.com/projects/sports...r-facility
- $10M FBall Facility
http://nationswright.com/projects/sports...e-facility
- $60M School of Nursing & Audiology
http://www.memphis.edu/mediaroom/release...health.php

Not bad for a President that many felt could not walk and chew gum at the same time.

1 of those items has something to do with actually delivering on the mission of the university. The rest are just embellishments.

(06-29-2014 01:48 PM)UM2001GRAD Wrote:  1 of those items has something to do with actually delivering on the mission of the university. The rest are just embellishments.

I don't think auxiliary services and quality of life enhancements are embellishments. The bio hub and nursing facilities are tier one mission priorities. Which one of those are leaving out.

I think your view of the mission is pretty narrow.

(06-29-2014 01:07 AM)BinghamptonNed Wrote:  

(06-28-2014 08:18 PM)ChapelHillTiger Wrote:  For a city with health disparities we need our own a med school and dental school.

(06-28-2014 06:55 PM)Stammers Wrote:  

Quote: Today the U of M educates more than 22,000 students, and it awards more than 4,000 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral and professional degrees annually.

In the community health building link...

Ain't gonna be another state sponsored Med School in Memphis anytime Soon, Doubt the Big Orange will give up their outpost in their most hated city ..

BUT ..

I wonder if anything along the lines of IUPUI is possible ...

Push for Rhodes or CBU to start one, and roll programs to feed into those?

The Bio research and Nursing facilities are a great start to transforming the institution into one that can create money and companies out of research and intellectual property. Which really seems to be the key to civic and institutional excellence. Add a hospitality accelerator/incubator would be nice.

(06-29-2014 02:36 PM)Tigerx3 Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 01:48 PM)UM2001GRAD Wrote:  1 of those items has something to do with actually delivering on the mission of the university. The rest are just embellishments.

I don't think auxiliary services and quality of life enhancements are embellishments. The bio hub and nursing facilities are tier one mission priorities. Which one of those are leaving out.

I think your view of the mission is pretty narrow.

The Mission Statement of the U of M is - as it should be - broad.

Mission

The University of Memphis is a learner-centered metropolitan research university providing high quality educational experiences while pursuing new knowledge through research, artistic expression, and interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship.

The school's highest priorities are:

Enhance Enrollment Growth
Strengthen Admission Standards
Increase Graduation Rates
Increase Research Funding
Enhance Quality of Instruction

All the projects fall within the mission and priorities of the University of Memphis by providing the necessary infrastructure. Private dollars fund much if not all of the cost of sports related buildings.

http://www.memphis.edu/stratplan/

I am so excited to see how my university is striving to be the best it can be. I cannot wait to see all of the new buildings and infrastructure on campus. The next few years are certainly going to be exciting in the life of the university.

Any news of the music building?

(06-30-2014 09:36 AM)kapsig tgr Wrote:  Any news of the music building?

The last thing I heard is that it is still in the works but it is coming along slowly. I believed it suppose to be where Towers is currently located. Hopefully it will be completed before the end of the decade.

(06-30-2014 01:59 PM)wkid87 Wrote:  

(06-30-2014 09:36 AM)kapsig tgr Wrote:  Any news of the music building?

The last thing I heard is that it is still in the works but it is coming along slowly. I believed it suppose to be where Towers is currently located. Hopefully it will be completed before the end of the decade.

I was thinking it was supposed to go south of where the new residences are going up that are replacing the towers. That should be the big project that really connects the campus to the highland row strip and creates more of a front door to the campus.

(06-30-2014 04:07 PM)kapsig tgr Wrote:  

(06-30-2014 01:59 PM)wkid87 Wrote:  

(06-30-2014 09:36 AM)kapsig tgr Wrote:  Any news of the music building?

The last thing I heard is that it is still in the works but it is coming along slowly. I believed it suppose to be where Towers is currently located. Hopefully it will be completed before the end of the decade.

I was thinking it was supposed to go south of where the new residences are going up that are replacing the towers. That should be the big project that really connects the campus to the highland row strip and creates more of a front door to the campus.

The music building is supposed to go on what is now Watauga Avenue.

The University slowed its plans down for a few reasons. One is that they don't quite own all of the property they intend to acquire (they own quite a bit though and are picking up a few properties here and there). The other was the housing market crash. They were knocking on doors trying to buy homes as the housing market was increasing almost monthly because the longer they waited, the more they were afraid they'd have to pay. The last is that they realized that they could re-coup some cost of the new construction.

Essentially they buy the properties with the allotted funds, rent them out to students, and then have physical plant and planning in charge of maintenance, landscaping, etc. The University collects rent from students in the properties they currently own while they wait on other homeowners to sell.

They are trying to avoid eminent domain because they think it would garner bad publicity. Eventually, I think they'll have to institute it.