To Judge International Branch Campuses, We Need to Know Their Goals

By Richard J. Edelstein and John Aubrey Douglass

The international branch campus phenomenon is relatively new, generating much news coverage and capturing the interest of many university presidents. But what is a branch campus? What kind of impact does it have on the home university in terms of its core functions of teaching and learning, research, and service to the larger society and the world?

The Chronicle of Higher Education.