MSU takes bold step with Dubai university deal

by E Wayne Ross on October 1, 2007

Detroit Free Press: MSU takes bold step with Dubai university deal

BY TOM WALSH

FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

While the State of Michigan’s dysfunctional political leadership was mired last week in an embarrassing budget standoff, Michigan State University was quietly launching a bold new program to set up shop in Dubai, perhaps the world’s most dynamic economic boomtown.

MSU President Lou Anna Simon on Tuesday joined a delegation from the United Arab Emirates to sign documents in East Lansing for the financial underpinning of a deal for MSU to be the first U.S. university to offer degree programs in the new Dubai International Academic City.

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