10.01.2008
NYU Abroad
Also Interesting. Thought we might have a good conversation about the exportation of knowledge, its potential strengths and weaknesses, etc.
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4 comments:
I guess I'll start the good conversation.
RE: the exporting of knowledge. I'm for it.
Your turn.
Could this not limit the amount of cultural contact that exchange programs allow? (I mean, let's be honest. Not many who live in the US are going to Abu Dhabi to get an education, and if campuses closer to home offer a comparable education, the many abroad may stay there.) Isn't the cultural diversity on college campuses part of the well-rounded "education?" Shouldn't we keep encouraging this exchange?
Not to mention: Are we trying to think of every way possible to negatively affect the number of domestic jobs? I'm not some nut who thinks that Americans are better than everyone else (and therefore deserve all the good jobs), but this will certainly have a negative affect on the hiring trends at NYU's New York campus, at least for the first several years of the new campus's formation. Should we be worried about this, especially if it becomes a trend?
Two things:
1) I didn't get the impression that this was replacing NYU's exchange programs. I thought it was designed to complement them. Loyola, for example, has a campus in Rome and maintains several other study abroad programs.
2) I'm guessing this will have a small impact on the hiring practices at NYU. It's not clear to me why you think it will have such a dramatic effect.
Is this going to be an extension of NYU where only NYU students study, or can people from UAE study there as well? I was never familiar w/ how Loyola's Rome campus worked but that's what I thought of.
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