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Originally Posted by DancingDuck
I don't think there will be anything in the golf course redevelopment that is education related... It'll all be housing/stores/restaurants/etc
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There's nothing planned officially yet, but not hard to imagine some things going in there if new buildings are needed down the road. My point was more that they should have just continued to densify the existing campus & smartpark to make the campus more human-friendly and livable. It's shocking that a university of that size doesn't have a little commercial strip in it with retail, restaurants and bars. It's poor planning and foresight, as they've just let others capitalize all along Pembina – except that's really bad for student life. The hike to the Pembina strip malls in winter is borderline unbearable.
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Originally Posted by OverUnder
I think Law could definitely move downtown as you have next to zero interaction with other faculties. A number of courses actually take place downtown at the Legal Help Centre for example. A beautiful mid-rise campus would probably take up an entire big parking lot around the convention centre. And the Law School’s current building is at least 30-40 years old. A renovation or complete rebuild in the next decade wouldn’t be unimaginable.
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100%. Most specialized faculties don't need to be on campus, like architecture, certain medicines, etc. With the way U of M does the U1 program, in theory once you're past that and have declared your major, most faculties are self-contained. Some students may choose to minor in something else – but there's so many courses delivered online now, many already may not even need to be on campus for those.
I know this obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but when I went to uni out of high school I chose U of W specifically
because it was downtown. I wasn't 100% sure what I wanted to do yet, but anything on my radar was available at both. I had no interest in trekking out to U of M (wanted to be downtown) when it didn't make a difference to me. I did communications and business, and at the time the business program at U of W was really taking off, and in my second year Buhler opened, so it was fantastic.