Cornell’s Comprehensive Master Plan
Cornell just released a brand-new website for their Comprehensive Master Plan project, which was anounced earlier this spring.
If you’re wondering what the Comprehensive Master Plan (CMP) is, a sentence from their opening paragraph describes it best:
The plan will guide the long-term physical development of the Ithaca campus in concert with the University’s academic goals over the next 10 to 25 years and is expected to be carried out over the next 18 to 22 months.
In other words, the CMP is a program is designed to create a plan for the use of physical property across the Cornell University Ithaca campus over the next decade. Decisions about student housing, campus atmosphere, parking, public transportation, physical security, beauty, new buildings, and renovations are in the CMP committee’s purvue. As Cornell students, you should be intimately interested in who is running this committee, as it will make wide-ranging decisions that affect day-to-day student life.
While a number of consulting and architectural teams have been chosen, the comittee itself is lead by David Skorton, C. Biddy Martin, and Steve Golding, who comprise the executive steering committee. It’s only fair to point out that provost Biddy Martin has been involved in a bid to close to the college of Architecture, Art, and Planning, the resignation of Arts dean Phil Lewis, and according to the Cornell Review some diversity favoritism.
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My dad was a Cornell alumni too. He did his masters in Mechanical Engineering from there. I’m reading ME as well
But, the wind of change is not quite favouring ME grads these days..
OR is it?
Hey Elliott
We are still waiting to hear all about the ‘great’ new Sun redesign….
Hi… I’m working on a Landscape Architecture project for Rutgers University. We need to redesign Cook campus, the Agricultural school, and I wanted to take a look at the Cornell Master Plan as a reference. Been searching and searching and clicking every link that says master plan and all I have found is TEXT. Any actual master plan?