After community effort to expand Purdue Airport and bring in commercial passenger service, President Mung Chiang calls it ‘Terminal P’ for Chicago’s O’Hare, promises more to come
I hope the airport succeeds, but it feels like that capital investment would have been better spent on a few more 500-600 seat lecture halls for all the mammoth 100- and 200-level classes.
More seriously, this has been a weirdly ignored, long-time acute need. Do you think they were hoping to use streaming lectures to avoid building big rooms? Or old-fashioned attempts to boost rankings by shrinking student/faculty ratios?
Can't say we haven't discussed it in my department! I think it'd be pretty cool, to be honest, but I also don't think the athletic department would be down with that. Can't let the academics get in the way!
I hope the airport succeeds, but it feels like that capital investment would have been better spent on a few more 500-600 seat lecture halls for all the mammoth 100- and 200-level classes.
More seriously, this has been a weirdly ignored, long-time acute need. Do you think they were hoping to use streaming lectures to avoid building big rooms? Or old-fashioned attempts to boost rankings by shrinking student/faculty ratios?
Mackey + lectern = solved!
Can't say we haven't discussed it in my department! I think it'd be pretty cool, to be honest, but I also don't think the athletic department would be down with that. Can't let the academics get in the way!
I would spend way too much time selecting walk-out music.
No matter what you do, someone will complain.
They want people to use the airport, but there’s not ONE public transit line to or from it—Make it make sense!