UConn to expand regional campus in Hartford with major downtown lease.

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New $1.1M CT cafe planned to cater to college students, the public. Here’s when it could open.

The cafe, projected to cost $1.1 million, also will be open to the public.

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-> A café had always been part of the plans for the Hartford campus, which opened in 2017 with the renovated Times building its centerpiece in the city’s Front Street neighborhood.

More recently, the café was part of the discussion of building student housing for the Hartford campus, now planned for a portion of the 242 Trumbull St. office complex off Pratt Street. The $28 million project calls for the creation of 50 suites for up to 200 students. The housing is expected to be ready by the fall semester of 2026.<-

-> UConn students will be able to use their meal plans at the new Hartford campus café as will university employees who purchase the community meal plan.

Construction is expected to begin in March, with an opening anticipated to coincide with the fall semester of 2025.<-

 

[CL82]

I feel like there is a plan to elevate the various UConn satellite campuses into full-fledged independent colleges. I'm not sure about the Waterbury campus, but seem to be taken for Hartford, Stamford, and Avery Point each of which either have residential housing or have plans for them.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

I feel like there is a plan to elevate the various UConn satellite campuses into full-fledged independent colleges. I'm not sure about the Waterbury campus, but seem to be taken for Hartford, Stamford, and Avery Point each of which either have residential housing …

Which benefits do you perceive with branches becoming “full-fledged independent colleges”? Unclear benefits to possibly diminishing bigger UConn, brand, etc; may run counter to expanding Storrs-affiliated grad programs, corporate partnerships, internships, etc in Stamford and Hartford. Maybe not …

 

[CL82]

Which benefits do you perceive with branches becoming “full-fledged independent colleges”? Unclear benefits to possibly diminishing bigger UConn, brand, etc; may run counter to expanding Storrs-affiliated grad programs, corporate partnerships, internships, etc in Stamford and Hartford. Maybe not …

I haven't really thought it through. I'm reading the tea leaves about the push for residences and dining halls in all three campuses. If I were to guess, I would think they are looking at the California university system model. I'm not sure that that would diminish the brand in Storrs.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

While the plan is to increase enrollment (and add four year programs) in Stamford and Hartford, along with providing more housing for both branches, the idea is to continue to keep all branches as part of UConn.

I'm not sure that it is the best solution but there are no plans to have a UConn version of UCLA, UAB or UNC Charlotte.

 

[CL82]

While the plan is to increase enrollment (and add four year programs) in Stamford and Hartford, along with providing more housing for both branches, the idea is to continue to keep all branches as part of UConn.

I'm not sure that it is the best solution but there are no plans to have a UConn version of UCLA, UAB or UNC Charlotte.

I think we may be saying the same thing a different way. Housing, cafeteria, four-year degrees Sure seem to be a concerted effort to make the branch campuses more than a two-year option for underclassmen. That doesn't mean they wouldn't be part of UConn.

I'm not sure what you mean with your last sentence. Making the branch campuses a place where you can go to school and get a four-year degree seems entirely consistent with the California model. How do you see Connecticut's version being different, other than the relative notoriety and success of the California version?

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I think we may be saying the same thing a different way. Housing, cafeteria, four-year degrees Sure seem to be a concerted effort to make the branch campuses more than a two-year option for underclassmen. That doesn't mean they wouldn't be part of UConn.

I'm not sure what you mean with your last sentence. Making the branch campuses a place where you can go to school and get a four-year degree seems entirely consistent with the California model. How do you see Connecticut's version being different, other than the relative notoriety and success of the California version?

UCLA, UCSB, UC Berkeley and all of the other UC's on California are individual four year schools. Yes, they all all part of the University of California system (just as SD St, Fresno St, San Jose St et al are part of the California state university system) but they are individual schools with individual acceptance offering a diploma specific to that school.

This is how the state university system in Connecticut works, CCSU, SCSU, WCSU & ESCU are individual schools within the system. If you were to graduate from Central, your diploma would say Central Connecticut State University, not Connecticut State University. If you were to earn a four year degree from UConn, even if the entirety of your studies were spent in Stamford, you would get the same degree and be viewed by the school in the same manner as if you spent all four years in Storrs.

 

[UConnJim]

I feel like there is a plan to elevate the various UConn satellite campuses into full-fledged independent colleges. I'm not sure about the Waterbury campus, but seem to be taken for Hartford, Stamford, and Avery Point each of which either have residential housing or have plans for them.

I don't think so. With the enrollment problems at the CSU system, I doubt they are going to create new 4 year schools. And, UConn has had to push many instate students to the branches as they don't have room in Storrs. So, they are making the branches more attractive and they are helping revitalize CT cities, so killing 2 birds with one stone.

 

[CL82]

I don't think so. With the enrollment problems at the CSU system, I doubt they are going to create new 4 year schools. And, UConn has had to push many instate students to the branches as they don't have room in Storrs. So, they are making the branches more attractive and they are helping revitalize CT cities, so killing 2 birds with one stone.

That's plausible.

 

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Hartford officials back 15-year tax deal for downtown UConn dorm

Hartford’s City Council this week endorsed a 15-year tax incentive for the renovation of a largely empty downtown office building into a dorm for University of Connecticut students. The deal would freeze taxes on the six-story, 144,644-square-foot building at 64 Pratt St. at current levels for...

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