SYRACUSE N.Y.
JPMorgan Chase will invest $30 million to help develop new financial service technology and infrastructure courses at Syracuse University under a 10-year partnership announced Wednesday.
The partnership also includes plans to build a new corporate technology center at Syracuse to focus on the fields of financial and information technology, said Syracuse Chancellor Nancy Cantor.
The program will provide both a training ground for new students and create hundreds of new jobs in Syracuse and upstate New York, she said.
The partnership “provides one of those rare opportunities to pool intellectual capital to make an immediate difference in industry, higher education and our region,” Cantor said.
The new curriculum should be ready for fall 2008, with the construction to begin shortly after. Cantor said the university will make temporary space available for the new program in the CASE Center in the Center for Science and Technology while the technology center is being built.
The classes will be open to students from Syracuse University as well as other public and private colleges and universities across New York , who will be able to participate through distance learning and other classroom and research exercises.
