At the January 1998 board meeting a consulting group estimated that upgrading the football team would cost the University $4.2 million a year. A taskforce is created to investigate this matter so the board could vote on it in March.
A proposal for a writing-intensive course that addresses current topics in neuroscience, but it is under the psychology department instead of the science department. This was in 2009, 3 years after neuroscience became a major.
In just two years time the new extensions center saw a great success in the number of people enrolled. The first semester saw 478 enrollees, this number jumped all the way to 1,192. This 79% growth proved the need and desire for a university of…