satellite-campus

  • Academic Freedom Behind a Velvet Firewall: The Absurdity of the Western Satellite Campus

    In the early 2010s, elite Western university leadership entered a state of euphoric corporate hallucination. University presidents—most visibly John Sexton of New York University, flanked by executive teams from Duke, the University of Nottingham, and Liverpool—embarked on an aggressive global roadshow to announce the dawn of the “Global Network University.” The pitch was breathless, messianic,…

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