Harvard has centres in Shanghai, Naples, Athens, Paris, Mumbai, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and two dozen other cities outside the US, so if there is one university that could shift to a global model in a crisis this is it.
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And. Harvard has graduated a variety of very good lawyers who will fight this. Do not let it over shadow the bill gutting healthcare and benefits voted on in the dead of the night. People who need benefits usually can’t afford high powered lawyers to fight for them.
Yale, Notre Dame, Stanford and two dozen other US universities have centres around the world.
One possible side-effect of a shift to a post-American world would be US institutions and businesses evolving into global entities increasingly detached from American roots
If Harvard, Google, Stanford, JP Morgan, Notre Dame and other institutions become decoupled from their American roots, then MAGA Trump anti-globalist will have achieved political hegemony at home at the cost of basic foundations of US global power.
I don't think they would become decoupled for at least half a century. On the contrary, these institutions becoming global would increase America's influence.
I strongly doubt that. The current regime is working very hard to not have any elections any more because those only limit power - the ultimate goal and drug.
At NYU at least, the centers outside New York are for autocratic prestige buying (Abu Dhabi) or study abroad programs. There's so little actual presence that even though there's NYU-Berlin, NYU is structuring me as an independent contractor rather than a regular program member in Berlin.
I don't think it does. The NYU faculty is in New York, and extremely difficult to move. The people who are not in New York, like me and for years @chittimarco.bsky.social, are encouraged to move there and there aren't any good bases for faculty abroad.
Harvard, Notre Dame and a few others often send faculty over to their centres to do block seminars of a week to 10 days. Often you get staff there for longer
Agree, though I think a lot of people in UK HE are kidding themselves if foreign student visas and admissions are the only structural problem they face
Also, if they feel the need to quickly expand their footprint they could approach virtually any other university in the world about creating a joint degree program and get a "hell yeah"
There's lots of talk of how various countries should poach the best people heading to American unis.
Curious to think they might poach the entire uni wholesale.
American research universities are already massive terrestrial versions of the International Space Station anyway, (or even better since CN is not on the ISS), so leaning into a global spinout franchise model (with interconnections across RoW branches) for location, personnel & funding makes sense.
Not to mention the infrastructure to offer online courses - they already have distance online programs for undergraduate and masters degrees that they can easily expand
Harvard needs to counter sue Don Trump and take his bitch ass and our country to the cleaners. Another totally illegal attempt that will be thrown out of court faster than it can be delivered.
This is a crazy take. For undergraduates, Harvard is an entirely residential college. And for graduate students, it relies on them to teach the undergraduates. And the idea that scientific research can be shifted overseas is nuts. There's no way overseas "centers" would fix this.
I'm not claiming that this is a good outcome and Harvard will do everything to fight it legally.
But if the Trump administration starts pursuing Rufo's agenda further in increasing this squeeze on US universities we are going to see a lot of this kind of improvisation.
It's not feasible without completely changing what makes Harvard Harvard. And it would take years and billions to implement. It's not a solution to tide them over in a crisis.
Depends on which faculties you are talking about. If this is existential then at least in A&H and social sciences they might have to move flexibly to ensure survival
Educators, Scientists, Doctors etc... most are going to leave if they can. Or won't even come anymore (and immigrants have contributed significantly to American innovation...a high % of US Nobel laureates are ...immigrants). US universities setting up camp abroad makes a lot of sense indeed.
Trump is so pathetically stupid. He has no idea how ignorant and cognitively impaired he sounds.
Why are the GOP covering his cognitive decline.
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Yale, Notre Dame, Stanford and two dozen other US universities have centres around the world.
One possible side-effect of a shift to a post-American world would be US institutions and businesses evolving into global entities increasingly detached from American roots
Curious to think they might poach the entire uni wholesale.
But if the Trump administration starts pursuing Rufo's agenda further in increasing this squeeze on US universities we are going to see a lot of this kind of improvisation.
And that’s before you get into the issue of people who are paying for Harvard want to be at the actual Harvard.
Why are the GOP covering his cognitive decline.
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