MBA Program In Downtown Cedar Rapids Expand
Cedar Rapids – still recovering from the flood itself, the University of Iowa, in Cedar Rapids to help rebuild.
Tippi, School of Management is moving and expanding its activities in downtown Cedar Rapids.
“It’s a great thing, a lot of traffic, many professionals who want, with whom we want to every night, four nights a week at least,” said Steven Emerson, who owns the building.
Emerson is a graduate of the school and tried to force them to spend a couple of years.
Drag the above mixture, 2 Avenue. The school will take the entire third floor of the building.
The school was formerly in the city center. Building the center is currently in bankruptcy court as an asset in Lehman Brothers.
The school has classes in a building downtown for a year instead, but finally won on his environment, and will be moved. Dean of the University Of Iowa College Of Business, said floods have forced to move, and she ends up owning class around Cedar Rapids.
Rather than letting the cities go back to school.
“We believe that the win-win situation for all parties,” said Curt Hunter, dean of the University of Iowa College of Business.
After studying several areas of the city is most useful, not only because of its central location, but because it provides up to 250 people here for four nights a week, said the hunter
Hunter said he teaches students a proven recipe for growing the city. He said he works when he moved to the University of Connecticut, Hartford city schools and saw first hand in Chicago in the mid 90s.
“Most of it was tied at Columbia College and the proportion of homes in the city. So you have dormitories, people walking in the street, there is life in the city today, “said Hunter.
Classes begin in November, then at full speed in January. So far, 593 students are learning to do.
The school received $ 200,000 from the Hall Perrine Foundation in the movement, and has won $ 500,000 in competitive funding from the University of Iowa in a new place to build, “said Hunter.
Hunter, the new site will provide opportunities for growth. And he said, important in light of the school is known throughout the world, and Forbes is a very high return on investment.