As one of us (Kris) walked towards a College of Letters and Science Curriculum Committee meeting yesterday afternoon I passed by Bascom Hall, the central administrative building of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A memorial plaque at the main entrance to Bascom Hall states the following:
Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe [...]
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Globalized higher education in the United Arab Emirates – unexpected outcomes
Posted in Abu Dhabi, Cross-Border Higher Education, Diasporas, Expatriates, GATS, Middle East, Overseas Campuses, Qatar, USA, United Arab Emirates, foreign campuses, tagged American University, American University of Dubai, American University of Sharjah, Dubai, Expatriates, foreign campuses, GATS, Gulf states, Knowledge Village, Overseas Campuses, Qatar, Qatar Education City, Sharjah, Sharjha, South Asian diaspora, UAE, United Arab Emirates, University of Wollongong on June 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Editor’s note: today’s guest entry has been kindly prepared by Dr. Neha Vora. Dr. Vora recently received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine. As of Fall 2008, she will be Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at Texas A&M University. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of race, class, [...]
Debating NYU Abu Dhabi and Liaoning Normal University-Missouri State University College of IB
Posted in Abu Dhabi, Capacity building, China, Cross-Border Higher Education, Dual degrees, NYU, Overseas Campuses, foreign campuses, joint degrees, service exports, tagged Abu Dhabi, Cross-Border Higher Education, Liaoning Normal University, Missouri State University, MSU, New York University, NYU on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The globalization of higher education is associated with a wide variety of trends and impacts, though these obviously vary across space, system, and type of institution.
One of these trends is institutional and program mobility; an emerging phenomenon we have paid significant attention to in GlobalHigherEd, including via these recent entries:
Just saying “no” to overseas branch [...]
Just saying “no” to overseas branch campuses and programs: Ivy League vs UK logics
Posted in Abu Dhabi, Cross-Border Higher Education, Overseas Campuses, UK, USA, tagged branch campuses, foreign campuses, Overseas Campuses, Penn, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Yale University on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the last two days we’ve received information regarding leaders of two universities – in this case the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University – making clear statements that they have no interest in opening degree-granting campuses or programs abroad. Both decisions were highlighted in The Daily Pennsylvanian (22 April 2008), while the Yale decision [...]
UK-China partnerships and collaborations in higher education
Posted in China, Cross-Border Higher Education, Overseas Campuses, UK, tagged China, Hong Kong, international partnerships, Overseas Campuses, QA, Quality Assurance, transnational higher education, UK, UK universities on April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Both China (PRC) and the Hong Kong SAR offer an expanding and highly competitive market opportunity for overseas higher education institutions (HEIs). As noted in a recent report commissioned by the British Council (UK-China-Hong Kong Transnational Education Project), a number of UK HEIs are providing hundreds of new ‘international’ degree programmes in Hong Kong and [...]
New coverage of Western universities in the Middle East and South Korea
Posted in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Middle East, Overseas Campuses, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, USA, foreign campuses, tagged American universities, foreign campuses, Middle East, Overseas Campuses, Qatar, South Korea, UAE, US universities on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s forthcoming 28 March issue has another profile of globally-oriented higher ed development initiatives in the Middle East. The relevant (subscription required) entries are:
‘An Academic Building Boom Transforms the Persian Gulf: Western universities find opportunities as 3 Arab emirates strive to outdo one another’ by Zvika Krieger
‘Pouring Money Into Culture [...]
Foreign university campuses and linkage schemes: opportunities and challenges in early 2008
Posted in Overseas Campuses, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, University strategies, foreign campuses, service exports, tagged American University in Cairo, Bombay, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Imperial College London, Indian Institute of Technology, Institut Français du Pétrole, KAUST, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, MIT, National University of Singapore, Queen Margaret University College, Stanford University, Technische Universität München, University of Calgary, University of Calgary-Qatar, University of California Berkeley, University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham Ningbo, University of Texas at Austin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on March 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The establishment of overseas/branch/foreign campuses, and substantial international university linkage schemes, continues to generate news announcements and debate.
Over the last two months, for example, Queen Margaret University in Scotland announced that it would be Singapore’s first foreign campus set up by a UK university (a fact that received little media coverage in Singapore).
The University of [...]
Engaging globally through joint and double degree programmes: a view from Singapore
Posted in Australia, Consortia, Double degrees, Dual degrees, Overseas Campuses, Singapore, tagged Australia National University, Double degrees, Dual degrees, joint degrees, National University of Singapore, Singapore, University of Melbourne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Editor’s note: further to Kavita Pandit’s entry yesterday (‘Engaging globally through dual degree programs: SUNY in Turkey‘), Lily Kong’s entry here also focuses on joint and double degree programmes, at the undergraduate level, though from the perspective of a senior administrator and scholar of cultural change who is based in Singapore. Lily Kong is Vice-President [...]
Overseas campuses (again), though with a focus on challenges in China
Posted in China, Overseas Campuses, USA, tagged Overseas Campuses, foreign campuses on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The overseas campuses theme is receiving a lot of attention this week. As we noted two days ago, the New York Times is running a series that primarily focuses on American campuses in the Middle East.
Inside Higher Ed has just posted a lengthy story (‘The phantom campus in China‘) regarding the grand ambitions, [...]
Overseas campuses: American views and photographs
Posted in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Capacity building, Cross-Border Higher Education, Dubai, Malaysia, Middle East, NYU, Overseas Campuses, Qatar, internationalization, service exports, tagged Carnegie Mellon in Qatar, foreign campuses, George Mason University – Ras Al Khaimah Campus, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qata, higher education, internationalization, New York Institute of Technology Abu Dhabi, NYU, Overseas Campuses, Qatar Education City, Texas A&M University at Qatar, universities, US universities on February 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Sunday New York Times published a general overview (‘Universities rush to set up outposts abroad’) today regarding the phenomenon of overseas campuses. This article (the first of a series this week – see the bottom of this entry for links to all of the articles when they have been published) focuses on US [...]
The globally engaged institution: insights via the American Council on Education
Posted in Cross-Border Higher Education, Global Institutions, Initiatives and Voices, Overseas Campuses, USA, University strategies, internationalization, tagged foreign campuses, higher education, internationalization, Overseas Campuses, universities, US universities on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Editor’s note: GlobalHigherEd has been inviting select universities (e.g., the University of Warwick), associations, and agencies to profile how they are attempting to understand, navigate through, and therefore help construct, the emerging global higher education landscape. We have also focused our own eyes on institutional strategy from time to time (e.g., see Lily Kong’s very [...]
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