While other U.S. universities have built branch campuses abroad, the University of California at Berkeley is betting it can create a global higher education hub in its own backyard.
Chancellor Nicholas Dirks has proposed that the Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay will be "a new form of international hub" in which a group of leading foreign universities and technology companies will establish satellite locations on a 130-acre parcel of Berkeley-owned land located a mere 10 miles from the main campus. The plan is for foreign university partners to collaborate with Berkeley on research and the delivery of degree programs, and Dirks has laid out a broad educational vision for a "Global College," to be developed with the partner universities, that would aim to equip students "with the tools to tackle global challenges through a curriculum centered on global governance, ethics, and political economy; cultural and international relations."
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/22/uc-berkeley-proposes-global-educational-hub-its-own-backyard