[New York Magazine] Zvika Krieger - Within less than three years, NYU plans to more or less clone itself in Abu Dhabi, thereby becoming the first major U.S. research institution to open a complete liberal-arts university off American soil. The city-state of Abu Dhabi, having already committed a $50 million "gift" to the university, has promised to finance the entire Middle East campus and a good deal of NYU New York as well. Many professors fear the wholesale embrace of a regime with a troubling history regarding academic freedom and human rights (not to mention the State of Israel). Similar entreaties by Arab states have recently been rejected by other American universities.
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