Northwestern University is one of six prominent U.S. schools operating branches in Qatar in a complex called Education City. The university, based in Illinois, has 207 students and 35 faculty members in Doha. Since the branch opened in 2008, specializing in journalism and communication, Northwestern has awarded 137 bachelor’s degrees in the Persian Gulf emirate. The university’s faculty in Doha includes a former managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. Stephen F. Eisenman, an art history professor at Northwestern’s home campus in Evanston, has some questions about all of this.

December 17, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post