Public Universities Plow Ahead With Construction Despite Tight Budgets
Crissy Pascual/ California Watch An addition to the Rady School of Management is one of the new buildings under construction at UC San Diego . Construction cranes sprout from the campus of UC San Diego like towering palm trees in the Southern California sun. There’s a new engineering building under construction, and a new addition to the school of management. A new office building is now open, along with a new parking garage, biomedical research and marine labs, cardiovascular center, $400 million student apartment and dining complex, and $55 million music center. New clinical research and biological and physical sciences buildings are scheduled to get under way next year. In all, $2 billion worth of brand-new facilities are in the planning, design, or construction stages at UCSD. The broader University of California system has more than 200 building projects under way at its 10 campuses and five medical centers, together valued at $8.9 billion. “The cement ne...