http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll … 69966/1008John Sexton is determined to transform NYU into the first truly global university – and he’s starting in Abu Dhabi. In the first of two articles on NYU's new campus, John Gravois takes the measure of Sexton's outsize ambition.
About every other Friday for most of the past year, John Sexton, the president of New York University, would duck away from his offices above Washington Square to teach a small seminar class on the American separation of church and state. Sexton has always maintained a full professor’s teaching load, which is unusual for the chief executive of a large university. What was even more unusual in this case was that the class met 11,000 kilometres away, in Abu Dhabi.
That is a taste the article is long.
But does anyone else see this as an extremely unnecessary expansion that is only going to raise tuition rates on it's students and have no real greater value then bragging rights? It further wouldn't surprise me if the State of New York ends up footing some of the bill for this.
