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Fordham University and New York Botanical Garden Form Acadmic Deal
Hey, waitaminute!
Was that Fordham University and the New York Botanical Garden holding a love fest this week?
After all those years of bitter feuding over a gangly Erector set-like campus radio station transmission tower looming over the garden, a whole new period of peace and love seems to have sprouted.
In the latest embrace, officials from the two Bronx institutions signed an agreement Wednesday to cross-pollinate academic programs.
A joint graduate program will permit students to receive a master’s degree or doctorate from Fordham, “drawing upon the intellectual and physical resources of both the university and NYBG,” they said in a statement.
Garden President and CEO Gregory Long, who pointed out the two institutions have been “next door neighbors” for 115 years, joined Fordham President, the Rev. Joseph McShane, to officially ink the deal.
“There has never been a moment in American history when education, and research and concern for the biodiversity of the world, have been more important,” said Long.
McShane called it “a momentous occasion that links us, two institutions that reach across Southern Boulevard, to work together for the common good.”
Things were not always so rosy between the two neighbors.
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