IP: MIT, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TO PARTNER IN U.K.-FUNDED INSTITUTE

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of
Cambridge will announce a partnership on Monday that will have
the two schools sharing resources and students to develop new
technologies and increase both schools' productivity and
competitiveness. The British government will provide 80 percent
of the partnership's $135 million budget for the first five
years, while private money from the U.K. will provide the rest.
Junior-year students at both schools will be able to study a
joint curriculum abroad as if they were a regular student at the
partnership school. MIT Chancellor Lawrence Bacow says, "What we
are about to do is potentially historic. It could transform both
institutions and truly create a new model for the global research
university in the 21st century." (Washington Post 11/08/99)

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University of Pennsylvania
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