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AllHusky said:
An awful lot of people travel to Farmington to visit Docs at UConn Health, pain in the neck whether you are coming from E,W or South, North is pretty easy. Hartford traffic is still a bear at certain times of the day Took my Mother in Law for numerous visits, something to do with her Medicare plan, blocked off most of the day. No reason UConn Health couldn't be satellite in Mansfield, lots of folks would have access that don't now.
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Storrs Office Location | UConn Health

Our location in the heart of Downtown Storrs brings academic medicine to the UConn community and surrounding towns.
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Patman said:
As a UConn PhD, no I don't. Please tell me how you're going to do research on patients in a small isolated population town in Eastern Connecticut? You're going to have to spend all kinds of money at the facility proper. You think you're the only one trying to goose the AAU figures via work arounds and technicalities?
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I know one of the “ researchers” at the health center. He refuses to consider himself a state employee but if you look up open payroll and see how much money these guys are making, there’s no doubt as to why the health center is a financial dinosaur.
 
Ha Who said:
I know one of the “ researchers” at the health center. He refuses to consider himself a state employee but if you look up open payroll and see how much money these guys are making, there’s no doubt as to why the health center is a financial dinosaur.
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Unless doctors are paid a competitive salary, you are going to get the bottom of the barrel. No different from athletes nowadays. Do you want a top notch medical school or a VA? There is a big difference. UConn remember is a public university and relies on public funding for its existence.
 
buddy said:
Unless doctors are paid a competitive salary, you are going to get the bottom of the barrel. No different from athletes nowadays. Do you want a top notch medical school or a VA? There is a big difference. UConn remember is a public university and relies on public funding for its existence.
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He is not a doctor
 
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CL82 said:
You have to invest the money in either location so when I built it on campus. Eastern Connecticut isn't Siberia.
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In the typical Eastern mentality of distance Storrs might as well be in Siberia . Its a pain to get to .
My grandson who just took me to a game there can’t believe they built the University there .
His point was when it was established land adjacent to Hartford ,was mostly farmland , West Hartford , Farmington , East Hartford , Windsor , Suffield , Enfirld even Avon would have been a better choice and made the University an economic engine for the entire Hartford area.
Thinking about it as a guy whose expertise was in logistics he made an excellent point.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
In the typical Eastern mentality of distance Storrs might as well be in Siberia . Its a pain to get to .
My grandson who just took me to a game there can’t believe they built the University there .
His point was when it was established land adjacent to Hartford ,was mostly farmland , West Hartford , Farmington , East Hartford , Windsor , Suffield , Enfirld even Avon would have been a better choice and made the University an economic engine for the entire Hartford area.
Thinking about it as a guy whose expertise was in logistics he made an excellent point.
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the land was donated, that's why it's where it is.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
In the typical Eastern mentality of distance Storrs might as well be in Siberia . Its a pain to get to .
My grandson who just took me to a game there can’t believe they built the University there .
His point was when it was established land adjacent to Hartford ,was mostly farmland , West Hartford , Farmington , East Hartford , Windsor , Suffield , Enfirld even Avon would have been a better choice and made the University an economic engine for the entire Hartford area.
Thinking about it as a guy whose expertise was in logistics he made an excellent point.
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He's not wrong, but the promise of "free land" will often lead people to bad decisions. Renschler field would be a good recent example.

Nonetheless, at the time, no one was foreseeing the stage agricultural college growing to be an "economic engine for the region." They were just looking to educate the next generation of farmers on successful and sustainable farming techniques.
 
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AllHusky said:
An awful lot of people travel to Farmington to visit Docs at UConn Health, pain in the neck whether you are coming from E,W or South, North is pretty easy. Hartford traffic is still a bear at certain times of the day Took my Mother in Law for numerous visits, something to do with her Medicare plan, blocked off most of the day. No reason UConn Health couldn't be satellite in Mansfield, lots of folks would have access that don't now.
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I think you don't understand how people work.
 
AllHusky said:
Medic,

You are killing me! So, all this discussion is moot?! UConn Health is there, just add a research facility somewhere on campus, and voila. $$ is on campus.
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So are they spending the dollars there or in Farmington. My bet is Farmington. But what do I know.
 
Not sure anything physical needs to take place. Here is what Nebraska is doing to solve the issue without relocating any building:

"Now Nebraska is working on a plan that will include reporting research expenditures from UNL, its flagship campus in Lincoln, in tandem with the University of Nebraska Medical Center located in Omaha. Currently, Carter said, Nebraska ranks 117th nationally for federal research and development dollars. But changing the organizational structure to combine R&D reporting would bump Nebraska to 66th.

“There’s nothing that doesn’t allow us to have the type of institutional control to make our research capabilities between our Med Center and our flagship be reported as a single entity. And that’s effectively what we’re doing,” Carter said."
 
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UConn Dan said:
Now just add a monorail linking Storrs to Farmington and we can call it contiguous. AAU here we come.
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Just buy a 20 foot wide stretch of land from stores to Farmington.
 
AllHusky said:
An awful lot of people travel to Farmington to visit Docs at UConn Health, pain in the neck whether you are coming from E,W or South, North is pretty easy. Hartford traffic is still a bear at certain times of the day Took my Mother in Law for numerous visits, something to do with her Medicare plan, blocked off most of the day. No reason UConn Health couldn't be satellite in Mansfield, lots of folks would have access that don't now.
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I don't agree with this. The UConn Health Center, the CCMC locations and all the other medical buildings in Farmington are right off of I-84. Very easy to get to from any direction really. I would say from the North might be tough if you have to go through Hartford.

What does location and geography have to do with anything anyway? The precious Big 18 is coast to coast and they are quibbling over 30 miles between a few buildings.
 
Kolumbo said:
I don't agree with this. The UConn Health Center, the CCMC locations and all the other medical buildings in Farmington are right off of I-84. Very easy to get to from any direction really. I would say from the North might be tough if you have to go through Hartford.

What does location and geography have to do with anything anyway? The precious Big 18 is coast to coast and they are quibbling over 30 miles between a few buildings.
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I mean that's between UConn and the AAU, ain't my rules
 
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Patman said:
I grew up in a dying massachusetts milltown... how much worse could it be?
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It could be...In my boyhood, Florida was a sleepy state with a population of 3 million....it is now 22 million.

Where once we roamed miles of unpopulated beaches and climbed the dunes, there are now towers, hotels, constant traffic...the cacophony of overpopulation.

I now luxuriate near a small mountain town of 1,600....

There has to be a middle ground between rampant overpopulation and Mayberry. I picture Connecticut as a middle ground...
 
billybud said:
It could be...In my boyhood, Florida was a sleepy state with a population of 3 million....it is now 22 million.

Where once we roamed miles of unpopulated beaches and climbed the dunes, there are now towers, hotels, constant traffic...the cacophony of overpopulation.

I now luxuriate near a small mountain town of 1,600....

There has to be a middle ground between rampant overpopulation and Mayberry. I picture Connecticut as a middle ground...
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Connecticut is about twice as densely populated as Florida, so if you're unhappy with how busy and overcrowded Florida has become, you're really gonna dislike pretty much anywhere the Bos-Wash corridor. At least in Florida you can go sit on one of the nicest beaches in the country to be unhappy about all the people.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
In the typical Eastern mentality of distance Storrs might as well be in Siberia . Its a pain to get to .
My grandson who just took me to a game there can’t believe they built the University there .
His point was when it was established land adjacent to Hartford ,was mostly farmland , West Hartford , Farmington , East Hartford , Windsor , Suffield , Enfirld even Avon would have been a better choice and made the University an economic engine for the entire Hartford area.
Thinking about it as a guy whose expertise was in logistics he made an excellent point.
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Storrs/Mansfield could have been a major development by now, but the locals didn't want that. State flagship universities are major engines of growth almost everywhere. In my opinion, the state of Connecticut should have stepped in and driven a growth agenda to help the economy in eastern Connecticut. The opportunity for UConn to stimulate the local economy is still there.
 
Hartford is fairly dense...density per sq. mile of 7,091 people...multiply that x 1.7 and it would be Miami
Miami...12,284 per sq. mile

But population within the Hartford city limits is 120,000. Tallahassee city limits 190,000.

Interestingly, some Florida cities have expanded boundaries and appear less dense than the urban parts actually are....for instance, Jacksonville is the largest city in the contiguous US in land mass...840 sq. miles...Jacksonville's population is 1.0 million...Hartford's is 120,000...yet Hartford is recorded as far more dense.
 
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