Florida colleges setting up campuses in China

[Mika]

Doya hear that giant sucking sound?....


Florida colleges setting up campuses in China
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13569271.htm

Seventy miles away from Beijing, Chinese government workers are building the 20th floor of a tower that will house a hospitality campus for Florida International University, with classes taught in English by FIU-trained professors.

Even Florida Gulf Coast University -- a Fort Myers school less than a decade old -- signed an agreement in September to offer joint business degrees with Nankai University.

At this rate, Chinese students may someday have as many Florida universities to choose from as Floridians do. And they won't have to leave China to become Gators or Golden Panthers. China-fever, which began in such major universities as Johns Hopkins and Michigan, has filtered to schools in Florida.

'They asked Willie Sutton, why did he rob banks. He said `That's where the money is.' The 21st century is the Asian century,'' said Jerry Haar, professor of international business at FIU.

University presidents are viewing China and its quickly emerging economy in the same light as car company CEOs and basketball commissioners in America and Europe. They see a billion-plus potential customers, eager for Western goods, culture and services. And they see a market that American students have to know just as well.

Except that most "Western goods" are now made in China.

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Many colleges across the country are doing this

If not a campus, they have working agreements for credits over at Chinese educational institutions. Schools of all sizes are doing this.