NYU's Abu Dhabi Campus

I am curious to hear what readers make of this.  John Sexton, the NYU President, is an interesting phenomenon.  He made his name from his work as Dean at NYU's Law School (from 1988 to 2002), where he genuinely improved the quality of the faculty (making it competitive with Columbia, which would have seemed incredible 25 years ago), but also pioneered ways to game the US News law school rankings through inflated per capita expenditures, fudged employment statistics (e.g., hiring unemployed grads as RAs and library assistants), and other forms of petty dishonesty--as well as establishing the public persona of a used car salesman.   The Abu Dhabi campus seems to be his main initiative since taking over as President of NYU.  (Philosophy and Economics, the two main success stories outside the Law School, made their big leaps forward in the 1990s, but all indications are that he has strongly supported their rise to excellence.)  The Abu Dhabi government appears to be footing the bill for the whole affair, including, presumably, student recruitment.  Would you send your child to college there?  Why or why not?  Does the world need branch campuses of American univeristies abroad?  Can an American university survive in the reactionary Arabian Peninsula?  Signed comnments only:  full name in the signature line and valid e-mail address.  Post only once, comments may take awhile to appear.