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Cooperation: City University of New York and Austrian Universities Join Forces |
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When contemplating the benefits of
the right balance between globalization and regionalization in higher
education, one can imagine a flourishing inter-institutional knowledge
network. In Vienna, further steps have been taken to realize this goal:
On July 5th, 2005, Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of the City University
of New York (CUNY), and Elisabeth Gehrer, Austrian Federal Minister of Education, Science, and Culture (BMBWK),
signed an agreement supporting and expanding the exchange opportunities
between several Austrian institutions for higher education and CUNY. On
the Austrian side, the various universities of applied sciences
(Fachhochschulen) and nine major universities specializing in liberal
arts, business studies, the sciences, and engineering, support the
agreement. CUNY, considered to be the largest university system in the
U.S. with 19 sub-universities, represents the American partner.
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