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Embarrassing Liaisons at British Universities

Quoted: But Kris Olds, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin, says that Americans also have a lot to learn.

While major American universities ?may have the international networks in place to fund-raise, they don?t always have the broader knowledge base to assess political, economic and cultural risk,? he said. ?For example, administrative entrepreneurs, as I call them, are rarely forced to work with regional area studies experts who really know what is going on.?