Failed experiments in offshore campuses

Kris Olds has a very nice post in GlobalHigherEd looking at recent closings of offshore campuses by US universities. He makes some quite pertinent points about the importance of learning -collectively- from these experiments.  Highly recommended

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[Albert Nilson]

As Richard Edelstein commented, a sound strategic adaption is probably due in order to survive in the long run. It must be prevalent to adopt the scenery, the customs and to create a highly integrated community even in satelite institutions in order for them to survive.

Yet, it is probably hard to maintain the "spirit of the school" when it is located half a world apart from the main campus.

Perhaps one idea is to unite forces with other schools, integrating and creating "sub communities" of campus areas abroad. Maintaining the spirit of the school for each institution, yet working together abroad in order to work constructively and learn form eachother. All institutions are governed and run differently, so are schools. There could be benefits to cooperations here.