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Volume 38, No. 14 |
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News Briefs |
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Staff Council election results, new officers announced |
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UI honors student employees |
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NCS Pearson unit to locate new facility on University's Oakdale Research Park |
NCS Pearson unit to locate new facility on University's Oakdale Research Park
NCS Pearson is a provider of applications, services, and technologies for educational testing, assessment, and complex data management. NCS Pearson is a subsidiary of Pearson PLC, a $6 billion international media company. Its assessment division, originally established as Measurement Research Center (MRC), was an early spin-off from research activities in the UI College of Education.
Dick Schwab, a former NCS Pearson executive and a principal with TMD, the project’s development group, expects construction to begin in early April on a three-story, 37,500- square-foot office facility. He said a two-story, 25,000- square-foot second phase of the Corridor Technology Center project already has been planned, but no construction date has been set.
Barring any unforeseen construction delay, the first phase will be finished in the fall of 2001.
NCS Pearson will leverage the Corridor Technology Center space to provide for expanding software development and project management activities. Schwab said the facility will be designed to accommodate between 50 and 70 employees per floor, with potential capacity of 350 employees when both phases are complete.
The project is planned for a 5.98-acre lot south of Oakdale Boulevard and east of Crosspark Road. Land lease negotiations between TMD and the Oakdale Research Park are nearing completion.
The Oakdale Research Park, established in 1989, provides corporations with easy, sustained access to relevant research resources of The University of Iowa.
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by George McCrory