Submitted by Scott Jaschik on October 15, 2008 - 4:00am
As colleges set up branch campuses abroad, how do these outposts change the institutional role as employers? Experts say many institutions have yet to grapple with the legal and equity issues involved.
Submitted by Scott Jaschik on December 1, 2008 - 4:00am
Though several colleges have programs in city hit by wave of attacks, they report no harm to students or employees. A former professor is among Americans killed.
World Conference on Higher Education concludes, with government officials from Brazil and India taking up issues of access and branch campuses, respectively.
In Utah State degree program in Asia, "lead professors" (from Utah) design the course work and assign the grade, but "local facilitators" (from partner universities) deliver much of the course content.
American and British university leaders propose a mechanism for building up the "special relationship" between the two countries by jointly working in other countries, worldwide.
Study finds 43 percent increase in just three years -- with some shifts away from the "North-South" location patterns of home institutions and their outposts.