India's complications in establishing branch campuses

Branch campuses are most often initiated by U.S.A., British, Canadian, or Australian universities in the Middle East or Asia. A model where branch campuses are established in the U.S.A. by a private university system in India have run into complications, as Elizabeth Redden indicated in her Inside Higher Education essay. The specific case cited involved the purchase of Amity University and resistance expressed by the Massachusetts attorney journal. The article describes concerns raised about foreign entities sponsoring institutions in the U.S.A. along with questions being raised about accrediting agencies sanctioning programs outside the U.S.A.