Today's News & Record reports local heads would like to plant a new school of architecture right here in the Gate City. The article says the city's architecture firms "are tired of losing promising young candidates to other cities with accredited architecture schools, so they’re hoping for a school in the Triad."
Brain-drain 101.
N&R:
An architecture school would not have the research impact of a pharmacy school or the economic impact of a law school, [Ken] Mayer [of Moser Mayer Phoenix] said. But it would be a push toward building the affluent “creative class” that the city has been seeking since author Richard Florida came to Greensboro several years ago to outline the benefits of having creative, educated workers and business people in a community.
“If you think back a few years, there was an effort to grow a creative class here in Greensboro,” Mayer said. “This fits right into that effort that Winston(-Salem) is on top of and Greensboro is trying to pursue. So, you try to group these things together and you can really begin to have some significant impact.”
The article says a focus group from the Piedmont Triad Partnership has been formed to...oh god...study the issue. This means another white paper-style report, another community meeting, press conference....Just do it. That's all...just do it.
E.C. :)
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A&T has landscape architecture and engineering programs.
UNC-G has some kind of interior design program. The best approach would be to create a school of design at one of the universities that would have architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. It would be unique to go ahead and put engineering in there too. Which school gets it?
"Someone has just figured that out"
If you've known this for so long, why haven't you mentioned it earlier?
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