cloud713 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/money-makers/2014/10/baylor-university-scouts-downtown-houston-to-house.html Waco, Texas-based Baylor University is scouting downtown real estate in Houston to house the expansion of its master's program in social work, said Diana Garland, dean of the school of social work at Baylor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 I imagine it would be somewhere near St. Joseph? or possibly Midtown. Midtown would be a perfect location for something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 Midtown could be cool, but I'm excited about a downtown Baylor location. Even though it would prob be HSPVA esque in size? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 From the article: "Fifteen Houston-based students, one Houston-based faculty member and two administrative employees will house the Houston office." Sounds like maybe a couple hundred to a thousand square feet of leased office space to me. Nothing more. Not like they're going to build a new tower for thousands of students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 bueno...muy bueno. The more variety downtown the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 I wonder if this is just a start and if they'll bring the executive MBA and other master's programs here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 I wonder if this is just a start and if they'll bring the executive MBA and other master's programs here.I was wondering the same.. So they'll likely just rent out space in a downtown tower for the time being? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 From the article:"Fifteen Houston-based students, one Houston-based faculty member and two administrative employees will house the Houston office."Sounds like maybe a couple hundred to a thousand square feet of leased office space to me. Nothing more. Not like they're going to build a new tower for thousands of students.True. It obviously wouldn't be a tower.. But maybe eventually theyll need their own midrise, if the program expands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 That's the impression I got from the article.. So they'll likely just rent out space in a downtown tower for the time being? Probably. And that might be the permanent solution as well if they want to remain downtown. Later on, far down the road, they might buy or build a new tower so they can put their name on it and then lease out the unused portion to cover costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 Probably. And that might be the permanent solution as well if they want to remain downtown. Later on, far down the road, they might buy or build a new tower so they can put their name on it and then lease out the unused portion to cover costs.That would be interesting.. Baylor getting into the real estate game. Heh. I would be happy with just a downtown hspva sized building with their name on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 From the article: "Fifteen Houston-based students, one Houston-based faculty member and two administrative employees will house the Houston office." Sounds like maybe a couple hundred to a thousand square feet of leased office space to me. Nothing more. Not like they're going to build a new tower for thousands of students. I agree with you. I honestly was just reacting to the idea of Baylor coming into town. Didn't read the article. Just did and noticed this. If the program is that small (which most masters programs are) then I imagine they will just lease space in an office building. It takes years to accumulate students into a program especially when they are trying to break into an already competitive University field here in Houston. If they ever do start thinking about a building then we probably won't see one for a few years or even this decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 That would be interesting.. Baylor getting into the real estate game. Heh. I would be happy with just a downtown hspva sized building with their name on it. Â I'm waiting for a giant green and gold building myself... Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Just when you thought the neighborhood was improving... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 Just when you thought the neighborhood was improving...Umm.. What? Why are you so bitter towards Baylor?Haha.. Green and gold building... Preliminary renderings of Baylors future downtown Houston campus.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 i can confirm that the rendering above is legit. look for a 1Q15 groundbreaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fkp5 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 I would definitely welcome a modern green glass building in downtown for Baylor's new building. This is coming from a Longhorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 I don't understand the point of the distance MBA programs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I don't understand the point of the distance MBA programsI think it's just talking points on the parent university. *cough*TAMU Mays Business School in CityCentre*cough**cough* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I don't understand the point of the distance MBA programs To get your MBA without having to travel to another city?To get your MBA at nights and on weekends so you don't have to quit your job?Because many employers will reimburse you for higher education you pursue, particularly when useful to the employer?To be able to pay your way instead of having to take out loans and be a full-time student?To be able to carry on with your life without having to take a couple years off and go back to school full-time?To be able to stay where you are and not have to sell your house and uproot your children so you can move to where the main college is? Should I go on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Vik Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 To get your MBA without having to travel to another city?To get your MBA at nights and on weekends so you don't have to quit your job?Because many employers will reimburse you for higher education you pursue, particularly when useful to the employer?To be able to pay your way instead of having to take out loans and be a full-time student?To be able to carry on with your life without having to take a couple years off and go back to school full-time?To be able to stay where you are and not have to sell your house and uproot your children so you can move to where the main college is?Should I go on?From my observations they don't have the same prestige as a normal MBA and they're not exactly cheap. My friend is doing the UT one for $95,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted October 4, 2014 Author Share Posted October 4, 2014 From my observations they don't have the same prestige as a normal MBA and they're not exactly cheap. My friend is doing the UT one for $95,000its Baylor.. it has plenty of prestige. being in downtown Houston offers an attractive location for students and a great location to excel after school. the article highlighted the need for social workers in Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 From my observations they don't have the same prestige as a normal MBA and they're not exactly cheap. My friend is doing the UT one for $95Â Â Perhaps you should ask your friend why he attends that program so you will then know what the point of them is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I am a graduate of the Graduate School of Social Work at UH. Welcome to town, BU. There is certainly a need for another social work program in the area.  As for location, I would highly doubt it would be located in a highrise office tower. The costs would be too high and I doubt social work students would enjoy paying for parking anywhere downtown! My thinking would be Midtown along the rail to provide easy access to downtown, the med center, and the tons of social service organizations located in Midtown itself. If BU's program is anything like UH's and UT's, those 15 students will spend as much time at field placement sites as they will the school itself. During my two years at UH, I spent time at Communities in School (Davis High), SEARCH (midtown), and HATCH (a church in Montrose) and was only on campus two days a week by year two of the program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonIsHome Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I know UHD prefers to maintain its Independence, but since the Central campus have been pushing for UHD to change its name I have been thinking of the effect of Merging with another school. Like converting it into a Houston campus for Baylor, A&M or UT. In the end I figured it wouldn't work based on entry requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted October 4, 2014 Author Share Posted October 4, 2014 I know UHD prefers to maintain its Independence, but since the Central campus have been pushing for UHD to change its name I have been thinking of the effect of Merging with another school. Like converting it into a Houston campus for Baylor, A&M or UT. In the end I figured it wouldn't work based on entry requirements.A&m has a presence in Houston with the mays business school at citycentre. UT has plans for a few thousand petroleum engineers(?) at a new Houston branch, so Baylor would really be the only one without a large Houston presence. I don't think they would need all of the UHD complex though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonIsHome Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Wasn't talking about presence. Was talking about an actual university, as in UTSA, UTD, UTEP, A&M kingsville, etc. SO a UTH, A&M Houston or BUH. I am guessing UT would be overkill because there are so many of them in many major cities in Texas already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 UH Downtown isn't leaving the UH System to hook up with Baylor; a private, religiously-based University. The two campuses couldn't be more polar opposite in their missions.   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Â Sorry cloud had to do this >.> Â Nothing personal I do this out of love! Â If anyone saw my last critique I'm sure y'all get where I'm going with this lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted October 5, 2014 Author Share Posted October 5, 2014 Sorry cloud had to do this >.> Nothing personal I do this out of love! If anyone saw my last critique I'm sure y'all get where I'm going with this lol. It essentially is MS Paint for a cell phone. It was scribbled out on a 4" screen (no, I haven't upgraded to the iPhone 6 yet, lol), on an app called iDraw.. Considering I did that in about 5 minutes on a cell phone I was pretty happy, and thought the concept was better than the majority of the buildings going up in the energy corridor.. Lol.For some reason it wouldn't let me just tap the screen to get dots, I had to move my finger around a bit. It's a pretty ghetto app. Lmao. But no.. I'm not sure I saw your last critique? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonIsHome Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 UH Downtown isn't leaving the UH System to hook up with Baylor; a private, religiously-based University. The two campuses couldn't be more polar opposite in their missions.Never said they were leaving. Said with all the talk of a name change I was thinking of the effect of them merging with an external make university that lacks a full university campus here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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