Bard College offers dual degrees in cooperation with universities in Kyrgyzstan, Russia and the West Bank. In a panel discussion last week, Jonathan Becker, Bard’s vice president for academic affairs and director of its Center for Civic Engagement, began his remarks by discussing another of the college’s locations. “So this is a place where we offer a Bard degree,” Becker said. “But the government there places limits on what we can teach. For example, we can’t offer classes on terrorism. They reserve the right to screen assigned readings, they must approve all faculty, they limit students' access to the internet and they even occasionally suspend our faculty. One faculty got suspended this year for six weeks for bringing a phone to class.”

June 15, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed