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Message: [QUOTE="whobut03, post: 2356755, member: 1148"] There was a reason why Cantor did what she did in regards to integrating the university with the city/community... I'm not defending it, I think the idea was there, the execution was not... Anyways, she did what she did because one of the first things she did when she got here was to hold focus groups with CEO and business owners of company's located in downtown Syracuse. I was part of the focus group and the common theme was that the university was separate, seemingly like on an island than the rest of downtown. There was no cohesion. There was no cohesion. To fix that? You see the Westside Initiative, The Warehouse, The Connective Corridor etc... That said, I like the direction the university is taking right now. Fix the academic rankings. With 81 possibly coming down, there will be an opportunity to connect university hill to the rest of downtown in a way we have never seen before. Just my 2 cents. [/QUOTE]