Cornell is as much a NYC school as Stanford is a Pacific Grove school.
Instead of investing in making existing infrastructure better, Bloomberg decided to start from scratch. From the outside this seemed as much a poke-in-the-eye to the existing schools as it was a gift to the devil-you-don't-know Cornell.
Stanford probably had a good chance to win it but wisely decided not to dilute their brand with a campus they couldn't guarantee would be as good as their first.
> Cornell is as much a NYC school as Stanford is a Pacific Grove school.
I have no idea what Stanford's relationship is to Pacific Grove (presumably not much), but Cornell already has a very strong relationship with NYC:
- Cornell's medical campus in New York, also called Weill Cornell, is on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
- The Cornell Urban Scholars Program encourages students to pursue public service careers with organizations working with New York City's poorest children, families, and communities.
- The NYS College of Human Ecology and the NYS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences provide means for students to reach out to local communities by gardening and building with the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
- The Cornell College of Engineering's Operations Research Manhattan, in the city's financial district, brings together business optimization research and decision support services addressed to both financial applications and public health logistics planning.
- The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning has a facility on West 17th Street, near Union Square, to provide studio and seminar space for students and faculty.
Instead of investing in making existing infrastructure better, Bloomberg decided to start from scratch. From the outside this seemed as much a poke-in-the-eye to the existing schools as it was a gift to the devil-you-don't-know Cornell.
Stanford probably had a good chance to win it but wisely decided not to dilute their brand with a campus they couldn't guarantee would be as good as their first.