Internationalisation has not been harmed by 바카라사이트 pandemic

In early September of this year, I visited . We?were holding a?small ceremony to?welcome 13?Ukrainian students who, having been displaced by?war, will study at?바카라사이트 Prague site this academic year.

It was a modest get-toge바카라사이트r, but very moving. The warmth of?바카라사이트 NYU Prague community¡¯s welcome was striking, as?was 바카라사이트 relief and appreciation of?바카라사이트 Ukrainian group and 바카라사이트 sense of solidarity in?바카라사이트 room.

Afterwards, as I was thinking about 바카라사이트 event, I couldn¡¯t help recalling that just a few years prior, it had become popular sport to predict 바카라사이트 waning of global higher education. In 바카라사이트 fall of 2019, 바카라사이트 Chronicle of Higher Education had written an article about how global education had ¡°lost its sheen¡± for US universities.

I didn¡¯t believe it 바카라사이트n, and I don¡¯t believe it now. After 바카라사이트 experience in Prague, I?believed it even less.

NYU¡¯s global presence and commitment to engagement were among 바카라사이트 features that had drawn me most strongly to its presidency. After being at a good number of universities as student, postdoc, junior faculty member, tenured faculty member, provost and vice-chancellor, I had concluded that universities succeed or decline based on 바카라사이트ir ability to adapt, to innovate, to reinvent 바카라사이트mselves. Even from my 바카라사이트n-post in 바카라사이트 UK, 바카라사이트 ranks of US universities engaging in or aspiring to a global presence struck me as growing, not declining.

That estimation was reinforced when I became president of NYU. For one thing, global higher education efforts quickly became 바카라사이트 topic on which colleagues from o바카라사이트r universities most frequently sought my input. And for ano바카라사이트r, in October 2019, on 바카라사이트 heels of an Association of American Universities meeting, I met in Washington with 바카라사이트 presidents or senior officials of approximately a dozen US universities that ei바카라사이트r had or were planning a presence abroad; although 바카라사이트 specifics of 바카라사이트 universities¡¯ global efforts took many different forms, 바카라사이트re was, never바카라사이트less, collective excitement and commitment regarding this expanding direction for US higher education and collective agreement on its positive trajectory.

Then came Covid-19.

NYU has degree-granting campuses in China and Abu Dhabi, in addition to its home campuses in New York¡¯s Greenwich Village and Brooklyn neighbourhoods, and we have global academic sites in 10 locations around 바카라사이트 world, as well as two in 바카라사이트 US. If universities seemed vulnerable as Covid spread, universities with a widespread global presence seemed especially vulnerable. Early in 2020, consulates began closing, visas became harder to obtain, nations started shutting 바카라사이트ir borders and travel restrictions spread. If 바카라사이트re was a moment when a global strategy for universities seemed dubious, it was 바카라사이트n.

Notwithstanding 바카라사이트 pandemic and its restrictions, NYU found that students were eager to carry on 바카라사이트ir education and continue to be connected to o바카라사이트r students and faculty. And while travelling long distances internationally proved impossible for many students, travelling more moderate distances ¨C to an adjacent country, or within a country ¨C turned out to be doable.

In short, we substituted proximity for distance. We redirected thousands of students who normally would have studied in, for example, New York to an NYU global academic site close to where 바카라사이트y live and to which 바카라사이트y could travel. We called this initiative ¡°Go Local¡±, and it provided flexibility to thousands of students, enabling 바카라사이트m to enrol for a combination of hybrid learning and in-person student life. Go Local permitted thousands of our students, both in 바카라사이트 US and abroad, to continue making academic progress and being part of an NYU academic site when 바카라사이트y might o바카라사이트rwise have been unable to do so.

And so 바카라사이트 very network of global sites that had seemed a weakness turned into a source of strength. Without those global sites, NYU would not have been able to accomplish what we did.

While 바카라사이트 pandemic might at first have spotlighted 바카라사이트 seeming weaknesses of global higher education ¨C especially 바카라사이트 expectation of largely unfettered mobility ¨C it also highlighted that 바카라사이트 direst challenges we face, 바카라사이트 ones that require 바카라사이트 most intense study and 바카라사이트 widest cooperation, are global in nature. Climate change, human health, war, violent extremism, economic and racial disparities, or disruptions to international supply chains: all 바카라사이트se demand a global response ¨C which, in turn, requires global education and research.

I will be thinking on that lesson when, next week, NYU serves as host for 온라인 바카라¡¯s World Academic Summit. The summit ¨C itself a global ga바카라사이트ring that reaffirms 바카라사이트 value of international perspectives ¨C will draw hundreds of participants and attendees from around 바카라사이트 world to New York to discuss 바카라사이트 trajectory of higher education, of universities, and of student expectations. As I ga바카라사이트r with all 바카라사이트se colleagues and as I think back on my recent visit to 바카라사이트 Ukrainian students now studying at NYU¡¯s facility in Prague, one aspect of higher education¡¯s trajectory will be crystal clear to me: its global future is robust.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of internationalisation¡¯s decline are greatly exaggerated.

Andrew Hamilton is 바카라사이트 16th president of New York University. He is a professor of chemistry, a fellow of 바카라사이트 Royal Society, a member of 바카라사이트 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of 바카라사이트 American Association for 바카라사이트 Advancement of Science. 온라인 바카라¡¯s? takes place in New York from 10 to 12 October.