Ross School of Business Wants A 200-Year-Old Oak to Make Like a Tree and Leave
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Business schools spare little expense to make their campuses sparkle for alumni, recruiters, and prospective students. For the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, that means spending $300,000 to uproot a 65-foot-tall tree and transplant it across the business school campus.
The university plans to move the 200-year-old bur oak to make room for a $135 million expansion funded in large part by real estate developer Stephen Ross, after whom the business school is named. Plans for the project, approved last week by the university’s Board of Regents, call for the demolition of an executive education building located alongside the oak.