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MARCH 2007
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ASU’s new journalism school breaks ground in downtown Phoenix Samantha M. Novick Cronkite News Service
Plans for a large college campus downtown took a step forward Wednesday when Walter Cronkite joined officials from Arizona State University and the city at a groundbreaking for the new home of ASU’s journalism school. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a program with 1,800 students, is the centerpiece of a plan to create a campus of 15,000 students in downtown Phoenix by 2020. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon said the campus will help revitalize downtown. “Not only is education the best investment we can make as a city for our future, but it builds an economy,” Gordon said. “We’re going to be training future leaders here. Other cities throughout the country are going to be fighting to do the same thing that we’ve done now.” Last March, Phoenix voters approved a $223 million bond issue championed by Gordon to fund development of the downtown ASU campus. Of that, $71 million will go toward the six-story journalism building, which also will house KAET, the university-run public television station. ASU President Michael M. Crow said having the journalism school downtown will benefit students and the community. “The principal goal is a major urban campus with schools connected to industry, connected to neighborhoods and connected to services,” Crow said. “This school, built in the heart of the city, will be a critical element to creating a learning environment for journalism.” Slated to open in August 2008, the new home of the Cronkite School will house two TV studios and control rooms, eight computer news labs and teaching and seminar space. Christopher Callahan, the Cronkite School’s founding dean, said moving downtown will benefit the program and its students. Cronkite said he was impressed with the way the city and university worked together to make the new building a reality. “It’s a great day for all of us, I hope,” Cronkite said. “Certainly is for me.”
By the numbers... $223 million The amount of the bond passed by Phoenix voters in March 2006 to develop an ASU campus downtown 20 acres The size of ASU’s downtown campus August 2008 The opening of the downtown journalism school 1,800 The number of journalism students who currently attend the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication $71 million The estimated cost of the new journalism school 6 stories The height of the new building 20 minutes The distance between the downtown Tempe campus and the downtown Phoenix campus by light rail
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, former “CBS Evening News” anchor Walter Cronkite and Arizona State University President Michael M. Crow at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new journalism school. (Cronkite News Service/Sam Nalven)
Artist rendition of ASU’s new journalism school
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