Build­ing on the University’s efforts to expand its pres­ence in Latin Amer­ica, Uni­ver­sity Pres­i­dent Shirley Tilgh­man and four of her col­leagues in the admin­is­tra­tion will travel to South Amer­ica over fall break to for­mal­ize arrange­ments for a strate­gic part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Sao Paulo in Brazil.

In her 2007 “Prince­ton in the World” report, Tilgh­man out­lined the University’s plans to enhance its global pres­ence in the face of a grow­ing trend toward inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion in higher education. In the past few years, Yale and New York Uni­ver­sity have made strides toward inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion by open­ing cam­puses in Sin­ga­pore and Abu Dhabi, respec­tively. While the Uni­ver­sity has not announced any sim­i­lar plans to open a branch cam­pus, it has begun to develop a rela­tion­ship with Brazil specif­i­cally over the past few years. Con­tinue read­ing →