The ambitious plans of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago are clear – build a new research park and engineering campus on the Milwaukee County Grounds in Wauwatosa.
Santiago and others see the campus as a key part of a plan to help transform the region economically and think it would lead to new opportunities for engineering graduates and help attract talent to the area.
How such a campus – 12 miles away from the main university – would affect the daily lives of UWM students and their education experience remains hazy. What a satellite campus would include is on the minds of engineering students, faculty and administrators and local officials.