Duke Faculty Question the University's Global Ambitions

Duke Faculty Question the University's Global Ambitions 1

Qilai Shen for The Chronicle

As Duke U. prepares a 200-acre campus in Kunshan, China, faculty at the university's home campus in North Carolina worry about what kind of standards the overseas campus will keep.


October 28, 2011: This article has been updated to include additional material from the print version.


The university of the future is a global institution.

It is an idea that has spread widely through higher education, but what does it really mean to go global, and at what cost?

A number of elite institutions are wrestling with such questions, but perhaps nowhere is the issue being debated more than here on Duke University's leafy, Gothic