Great Lakes Cities

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by hipster duck

Royal Military College - which is like the West Point of Canada - is kind of on the shores of Lake Ontario, in Kingston at the point where it becomes the St. Lawrence river.



This is the very end of the Great Lakes.

If the port of Duluth is like the opening credits, then where RMC is located is like the very end of the ending credits where they say that no animals were harmed in the filming of the movie.

Very nice!

I especially love the old "pointed" fort.

Continuing your movie analogy, does that make Detroit the intermission?

[Antares41]

[QUOTE=bnk;10103399]While not on a Great Lake but in a Great Lake State


UW Madison has large lakes north and south of campus.


But, I believe UW- Milwaukee is on the Lake Michigan shoreline, or, that least very close to it . Stayed there one summer while interning for GE-Medical Systems back in the mid-80s.

NVM I see its blocks away from the actual shoreline.

[pj3000]

The stunningly-gorgeous Kent State-Ashtabula campus on Lake Erie:

[Steely Dan]

^ yikes, that is bleak.

But I suppose par for the course for bumblefuck satellite campuses everywhere.

At least that one has the lake.

Imagine it just plopped down in the cornfields.

[mrnyc]

^ no cornfields around there, but along those lines kent state’s sister school bgsu’s firelands satellite campus in huron is close to cornfield country and not far from the lake either — also its not much more of a looker —

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vWoADMAkmAoY4xuo8?g_st=ic

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

^ no cornfields around there

It seems to me that Steely is saying "imagine if it was".

Like, it's already a bleak looking place, but it would be way worse if it was just plopped in the cornfields.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by pj3000

It seems to me that Steely is saying "imagine if it was".

Like, it's already a bleak looking place, but it would be way worse if it was just plopped in the cornfields.

i dont see that it makes any difference. bleak is bleak. and thats why i put up the sister school satellite, its closer to cornfield country. check out terra tech for another true cornfielder somewhat near the lake. its in the same bleak vein, actually slightly more developed recently than those two state u satellites, but it abuts that corn:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eTzRVwzeuii4aKU36?g_st=ic

[ChiMIchael]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

A post I made about Northwestern University over in the other thread got me curious about other universities and colleges in the great lakes region whose campuses are located directly on the shoreline of the great lakes

Chicago has two:


The afore mentioned Northwestern University, up in Evanston, has about 1 mile of shoreline:


Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File...ity_Aerial.jpg



And Loyola University Chicago, roughly 4 miles south of NU in Rogers Park, has about a half-mile of shoreline:


Source:
https://www.architecture.org/program...ectural-jewel/


The University of Chicago's campus down in Hyde Park is sorta close to the lake, but not directly on the lakeshore itself.

Any others?

Well Northwestern's Chicago campus is only blocked by Lake Shore Drive

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by ChiMIchael

Well Northwestern's Chicago campus is only blocked by Lake Shore Drive

True.

The Rubloff Building (law school), which is the building in the foreground on the left below, is directly on the lakeshore, save for the 8 lanes of LSD.



Source: https://news.law.northwestern.edu/la...streeterville/

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

^ yikes, that is bleak.

But I suppose par for the course for bumblefuck satellite campuses everywhere.

At least that one has the lake.

Imagine it just plopped down in the cornfields.

Looks even tinier than most nothingburger community colleges

[edale]

Originally Posted by Wigs

Looks even tinier than most nothingburger community colleges

It is a nothingburger community college...

[MonkeyRonin]

It doesn't quite hug the water like Loyola or Northwestern, but Humber College in Toronto is sort of lake-adjacent (basically surrounded by a large lakefront park):




And George Brown College has built a few new buildings on the city's developing eastern waterfront (they're completed now, but I couldn't find any recent pictures):

[Innsertnamehere]

Humber College is a converted Psychiatric Hospital - so that's fun!

[subterranean]

Northwest Michigan College is at the base of Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City, Michigan, between East and West Grand Traverse Bays, and their Great Lakes "campus" is lakefront. Not bad for a community college, though.

[Klippenstein]

Originally Posted by subterranean

Northwest Michigan College is at the base of Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City, Michigan, between East and West Grand Traverse Bays, and their Great Lakes "campus" is lakefront. Not bad for a community college, though.

Very cool. They've got a little fleet. You can see them on their webcam with some amazing zoom. It's a little glitchy. I got it stuck for a second. But you can see the snow really coming down.

[benp]

Not directly on a Great Lake itself, but Niagara University is right on the Niagara River Gorge connecting Erie and Ontario.

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by edale

It is a nothingburger community college...

Kent State is a community college? Thought it was a well known Ohio university. I guess I'm confused because in NYS the community colleges are county based (Erie (Buffalo), Niagara (NF/Niagara county), Monroe (Rochester) etc)

benp, Niagara University is a nice compact campus. Countless Canadians have earned teaching degrees there.

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by Wigs

Kent State is a community college? Thought it was a well known Ohio university. I guess I'm confused because in NYS the community colleges are county based (Erie (Buffalo), Niagara (NF/Niagara county), Monroe (Rochester) etc)

No, not sure why that comment was made. It's a major state university. Even the little Ashtabula "campus" awards Bachelor degrees.

[edale]

Originally Posted by Wigs

Kent State is a community college? Thought it was a well known Ohio university. I guess I'm confused because in NYS the community colleges are county based (Erie (Buffalo), Niagara (NF/Niagara county), Monroe (Rochester) etc)

benp, Niagara University is a nice compact campus. Countless Canadians have earned teaching degrees there.

Kent State's main campus is in Kent, Ohio, and is much larger than the satellite campus shown in Ashtabula. Many of Ohio's universities have satellite campuses that effectively act as community colleges. People can take most of their gen-eds at these smaller outposts, but normally have to matriculate to the larger home campus to complete their degree. They might be able to issue Bachelor degrees, but that's not how they're commonly used. They offer a good number of Associate Degree programs, which are generally not offered at the primary campuses, and are more in the community college realm.

Miami has a satellite in Hamilton, OH. Ohio U has a couple, though they have spun some off such as the Belmont Campus, which is now its own community college. OSU has a number of satellite campuses too.

So, technically not community colleges, but in practice, that's essentially what they are. They're small, one or two building 'campuses' that offer a small number of classes.

[edale]

Originally Posted by pj3000

No, not sure why that comment was made. It's a major state university. Even the little Ashtabula "campus" awards Bachelor degrees.

I was clearly talking about Kent State- Ashtabula, which was pictured as being a lakefront campus, not Kent State