Housing by UCI

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What are they building off of Bonita Canyon Drive across from the Mariners Church?  Is it part of the UCI campus or are those houses going to be for sale?
 
Those are homes developed by Irvine Campus Housing Authority. UCI is trying to attract the brightest professors and administrators away from other top campuses. UCI currently does not have neither the brightest students nor teachers. This strategy of providing homes for sale below market rate with free golf membership to campus staff is the first step to lure and root them for the long term.  Staff with accolades will attract the best students and researchers to boost fame and hopefully by then the acceptance rate would drop from the current 50% down to 10% like the top tier campuses.
 
irvinehomeshopper said:
Those are homes developed by Irvine Campus Housing Authority. UCI is trying to attract the brightest professors and administrators away from other top campuses. UCI currently does not have neither the brightest students nor teachers. This strategy of providing homes for sale below market rate with free golf membership to campus staff is the first step to lure and root them for the long term.  Staff with accolades will attract the best students and researchers to boost fame and hopefully by then the acceptance rate would drop from the current 50% down to 10% like the top tier campuses.
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These homes are nice and well under market value (but of course the buyer pool is restricted). Some of them have nice views (city, or 73). The newly community center is nice for "Stargazing". Unfortunately some of the new developments are, *cough, motor court type homes.
 
Professors salary, mortgage, and golf membership will be an all inclusive package. UCI is serious about competing with Stanford, Cal and other elite institutions. UCI has been successful in luring several Stanford researchers to its medical program.
 
That is a pity. UCI were aggressive after the big guns but no deal. Got to step up with the amenity package or they won't come. What ever happened to all the big incentives?
 
irvinehomeshopper said:
That is a pity. UCI were aggressive after the big guns but no deal. Got to step up with the amenity package or they won't come. What ever happened to all the big incentives?
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people whining about their taxes being too high/more willing to pay for prisons than universities (UCs lost 1/3 of their state support), the poor performance of the markets for the pension(employee contributions tripled recently), poor management/administrator bloat.  Industry not scalable.
 
Oh, UCI will be all right, especially with regards to undergrads.  It will always be more desirable than riverside or merced, and asian and hispanic parents prefer it to sb and sc.  less than cal, la, sd, and davis probably.  but it still accepts probably the 92%-94% slice of california high school students.  The quality of the faculty doesn't matter so much, its relative rank will remain the same.

The quality of the place nationally is dropping, though.  But the addition of the law school is top notch and will improve the overall reputation, i think
 
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