UC-Riverside pushes on with its med school despite lack of
state support. From the Desert Sun:
PALM DESERT —
University of California, Riverside officials should know within two weeks
whether the state will OK a land transfer critical to its new medical school’s
presence in the Coachella Valley. At
issue is 11.5 acres along Frank Sinatra Drive,
just east of UCR’s existing Palm Desert campus... The medical school plans to build an
outpatient medical clinic there that can be used as a teaching facility for
students and medical residents, Dean G. Richard Olds said...
Olds said there is no
plan B should the state decline to release the land. “I guess we’ll have to
build it somewhere else,” he said. A
rejection would stretch out the unclear timeline. If UCR does get control of
the land, what happens and when it happens still rests largely with the state.
The clinic could range in size from 10,000 square feet to about 40,000 square
feet and cost $20 million to $60 million depending, in part, on how much the
state is willing to commit. Olds said a newly elected state senator and
representative from the Riverside area have just introduced bills to restore
$15 million a year in state funding for the school, after Gov. Jerry Brown squashed state contributions for the project in
order to cut costs...
Hmm. Frank Sinatra Drive. I guess the dean wants to do it his way
despite lack of state support:
3 comments:
Post a Comment