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...back home to a part of the world that has become increasingly important. Already, Ivy League institutions such as Harvard, Yale and Columbia are running joint courses with local schools or offering independent short programs. George Washington University and the University of North Dakota are also tying up with Indian schools. Georgia Institute of Technology has begun talks with one of the state governments and regulators to see if it can legally get around the general ban on foreign universities' setting up shop in India. If successful, it would become the first American university to offer graduate degrees identical...
...KATONAH T shirts and the Marthometer, a parody newspaper handed out at the commuter-train station. By summer, a fund raiser to cover legal bills had been put together; local musician Marc Black sang about Chief Katonah, the town's Native American namesake, as members of the Ramapough Lenape Indian nation, who had been enlisted to share in the outrage, looked on. Two recent high school grads took to the Internet with another protest song ("You're a craftsman who can make a vase in the dark. Please leave us be without a trademark"), and area writer Bill Tisherman reserved...
...next step. With a degree in computer engineering from Purdue University and a few years working for Motorola in Chicago, Varma, 27, felt a stint in grad school would help him move up into management. So last year he applied to a couple of U.S. schools and to the Indian School of Business (ISB), a six-year-old institution in the southern city of Hyderabad that has academic ties to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the London Business School. He was thrilled when he got into ISB. "The more...
...tempting one for foreign universities too. Although they are currently barred from setting up full operations in India, dozens of American and European schools are finding creative ways to team up with local partners so that they can enter the potentially lucrative Indian market. The push to get in comes more than a decade after China opened up to foreign universities...
Operating abroad poses challenges for the outsiders too. Indian universities set aside almost half of all admissions slots for students from "listed tribes," or lower castes. The quota system has helped millions who would otherwise not be able to attend university, but it also prevents schools from controlling the academic quality of their student body. A proposed bill would exempt foreign universities from this form of affirmative action, but their administrators worry that future governments might rescind the exemption...