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Planning for Higher Education Journal: Breaking the Mold Cornell Tech and the 21st-Century University

U3 Advisors Principal & Co-founder Karen Backus and Senior Advisors Steven Jacobs contributed to Planning for Higher Education’s profile of Cornell University’s winning bid in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences Campus competition. Read the full article here.

U3A served as consultant to Cornell in the University’s successful quest to win the Bloomberg administration’s competition to attract a world-class applied sciences and engineering campus to New York City, and has since served as real estate advisor in implementing the 2 million square foot campus. Read more about U3A’s continued work with Cornell here.


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