February 4, 2009
...According to Raphael Bostic, professor and director of SPPD's master of real estate development program, students will have about one to two months to work on a specific project.
"This is the very first time we have done this," Bostic said. "This is a new program, and it's a tremendous opportunity to showcase our talent before the professional world.
"This program enables students to gain an up-close perspective on real communities with real questions and issues, and have to solve them within a real-world time frame. This shows students how public officials view the challenges they face. And they get to understand the trade-offs involved, the costs and benefits that must be considered in doing these types of things."...