Excerpt for the day - March 31

" I find it remarkable that prestigious U.S. institutions of higher learning, such as NYU or Yale — which recently announced plans to open a campus in Singapore – find it so easy to partner with dictatorships, communist autocracies, and one-party authoritarian states. These are the same prestigious U.S. institutions who so pride themselves on their liberal concern for human rights. But they are too busy opening campuses to think about those things now. By leasing out their names, academic prestige and credibility to some of the most repressive governments in the world, our leading universities are showing that they place ultimate value not on the principles of liberty or the free expression of ideas, but on corporate-style expansionism, power, and the almighty dollar.

We have reached the dawning of the age of the university as multinational conglomerate. Wherever you are in the world, NYU, Inc., is able to manufacture a genuine American educational experience for you (freedom not included); diplomas come in four convenient sizes. And it’s only a matter of time before McYale opens up a convenient drive-thru location in your hometown, village, or jungle tribe."

-Nathan Harden @ PhiBetaCons