Stanford representatives said they were saddened, but that construction on the James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and Sciences would continue, as would the creation of the interdisciplinary Bio-X program, set to be housed in the new building.
There is certainly a place for purely practical training programs within our broader goal to be first in the world in an educated work force, but the question increasingly should be whether all of those programs need to be housed at expensive four-year colleges.
Each of these programs were chosen to be housed in the center due to having community outreach programs, with the goal of the center being to create a community atmosphere between students, faculty, and the community at large.
Plans call for the local Head Start preschool program for low-income children to be housed at the center starting in September.
The program, formerly called World Views, used to be housed on the 92nd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center; one of its artists, the sculptor Michael Richards, died when the tower collapsed.
Stanford's Bio-X program will be housed in a new center slated to be ready by next summer.
The program will be housed in a new facility at Tsinghua, Schwarzman College.
"We were looking for a youth program to be in the mission house," recalled Father Wells, who negotiated the deal with SafeSpace and eventually raised $800,000 to refurbish the church.
Last Thursday a coalition called Housing First gathered at City Hall to propose a new 10-year housing program to be financed with $10 billion -- double the $5 billion in Mayor Edward I. Koch's 10-year housing plan that started in 1986.
Frank has been a chief advocate of the National Housing Trust Fund, which was created as part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 and was the first affordable housing program to be enacted by the Congress since 1990.
