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New York University, which has long been expanding beyond its home base at Greenwich Village’s Washington Square to neighborhoods like the East Village, is turning its eyes much farther eastward — announcing on Sunday that it will establish a degree-granting liberal arts campus in Shanghai.
N.Y.U. Shanghai will start teaching its first cadre of roughly 150 undergraduates in September 2013 on a campus being built by China in the Pudong district of Shanghai. Eventually, N.Y.U. — which currently offers the chance to spend a semester or year abroad in Shanghai and 10 other cities — foresees an enrollment of 3,000.
Classes will be conducted in English and “and in accord with the principles of academic freedom,” an N.Y.U. statement said.
“We’re comfortable that we will be able to offer an N.Y.U. education in Shanghai the way we offer it in Abu Dhabi or New York City,” Mr. Sexton said, when asked whether China might exercise the kind of censorship foreign to American colleges.
Mr. Sexton said representatives of China had invited N.Y.U. to set up the Shanghai branch. Forty to 50 percent of the students will come from China.
Most of the professors would be regular N.Y.U. faculty members who volunteer or agree to spend a few semesters abroad. The curriculum has not yet been developed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/nyregion/28nyu.html
N.Y.U. Shanghai will start teaching its first cadre of roughly 150 undergraduates in September 2013 on a campus being built by China in the Pudong district of Shanghai. Eventually, N.Y.U. — which currently offers the chance to spend a semester or year abroad in Shanghai and 10 other cities — foresees an enrollment of 3,000.
Classes will be conducted in English and “and in accord with the principles of academic freedom,” an N.Y.U. statement said.
“We’re comfortable that we will be able to offer an N.Y.U. education in Shanghai the way we offer it in Abu Dhabi or New York City,” Mr. Sexton said, when asked whether China might exercise the kind of censorship foreign to American colleges.
Mr. Sexton said representatives of China had invited N.Y.U. to set up the Shanghai branch. Forty to 50 percent of the students will come from China.
Most of the professors would be regular N.Y.U. faculty members who volunteer or agree to spend a few semesters abroad. The curriculum has not yet been developed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/nyregion/28nyu.html