Reconsidering Privatization in Cross-Border Engagements: The Sometimes Public Nature of Private Activity

Global expansion of international branch campuses: Managerial and leadership challenges

“…However, many such institutions fulfill a public mission within the host country (McBurnie 2002;Trani and Holsworth 2010). For example, Lane and Kinser (2011) found that in some nations, IBCs receive a great deal of financial support from the local government and are intended to fulfill public goals such as providing access to local students and engaging in service to the local community. As pointed out in their article, in certain cases there is even a higher expectation of engaging in the local community for the faculty on the branch campus than at the home campus.…”

Cross‐Border Higher Education: Global and Local Tensions Within Competition and Economic Development

“…home campuses are public. That being said, all IBCs are considered private in the country of operation, even if they receive public subsidies (Lane & Kinser, ). The most popular programs offered are professional; the Master of Business Administration continues to be the most popular degree by enrollment.…”

“…An international branch campus is an "entity that is owned, at least in part, by a foreign education provider; operated in the name of the foreign education provider; engages in at least some face-toface teaching; and provides access to an entire academic program that leads to a credential awarded by the foreign education provider" (Lane, 2011, p. 5). International branch campuses may be wholly owned by the home campus, operated in partnership with a foreign investor, or subsidized by the host government (Lane, 2010;Lane & Kinser, 2011 (Lane & Kinser, 2011). The most popular programs offered are professional; the Master of Business Administration continues to be the most popular degree by enrollment.…”

Identifying fit of mission and environment: Applying the American community college model internationally

“…Unlike the private-public partnership with Saigon Tech, where an entrepreneur selected HCC, the partnership with Qatar is a publicpublic one, won through a stiff competitive process. In fact, Qatar has been increasingly turning to foreign education providers to help build local capacity and serve the Qatari community (Lane and Kinser 2011). Qatar had invested in a university system, which promulgated Qatar University in 1973 and more recently partnered through the Qatar Foundation with six US universities when it initiated major educational and cultural expansion beginning in 1995 with the creation of the Qatar Foundation and Education City.…”