NEW YORK—Mayor Bloomberg announced Carnegie Mellon University’s plan to open an Integrative Media Program in New York City.
“The city, through our Economic Development Corporation will invest $3.5 million from taxpayers funds to help get the program off the ground and support its ongoing operations, but that’s an investment we believe will be recouped many times over,” said Bloomberg at the announcement in Steiner Studios on Nov. 20 in Brooklyn.
This is the fourth such school the mayor has announced as part of the city’s Applied Sciences NYC Competition. The other three are New York University, Columbia, and a partnership between Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
The program will be hosted by production company Steiner Studios, which is retrofitting a seven-story building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to host the program.
“What a better place for Integrative Media program than the Brooklyn Navy Yard, one leg of Brooklyn’s growing tech triangle and certainly one of America’s hottest hubs for innovation,” said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Marty Markowitz.
The program will host six teachers from Carnegie Mellon and matriculate 40 students when it opens in August of 2015. It will focus on using technology across a wide range of sectors and will offer programs like Urban Design, Computational Data Science, Production Technology and Management and Integrative Innovation in Products and Services.
Holly Kellum is a special correspondent in New York.
