UC Berkeley Plans to Build a Global Campus, 10 Miles From Home

As reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the University of California at Berkeley plans to open a global campus.  Under the plan, partner universities from around the world would set up shop at a new outpost just 10 miles from Berkeley’s campus. The Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay, campus officials say, will offer a “global citizenship” curriculum—with a focus on topics like governance, ethics, health, and sustainability—for graduate students from the United States and abroad. By situating the campus nearby—an unusual move in an era when many American institutions are building abroad—Berkeley hopes to establish partnerships with universities from around the world while preserving full academic freedom for its faculty.

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