Deterritorializing academic freedom: reflections inspired by Yale-NUS College (and the London Eye)

Kris Olds:

To what degree is academic freedom being geographically unsettled - deterritorialized, more accurately - in the context of the globalization of higher education? This was one of the issues I was asked about a few days ago when I spoke to a class of New York-based Columbia University students about the globalization of higher education, with a brief case study about Singapore's global higher education hub development agenda. Some of the students were intrigued by this debate erupting (again) about Yale's involvement in Yale-NUS College:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 3, 2012 2:42 AM
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