In Tough Times, Government-Backed Foreign Universities Promote Their Stability

While American universities struggle amid the harshest economic climate in a generation, institutions in much of the rest of the world are sheltered from the worst of the fallout by strengthened government backing. Delegates to a conference of university presidents here last week learned that colleges in Asia and Europe were pushing ahead with expansion plans as their U.S. counterparts cut back.

The 2009 International Presidential Forum, an annual gathering that draws

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