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This school is not UW though, is it. Who, specifically, is going to teach at this new institute since UW profs are already at capacity and Tsinghua profs are in China. They certainly are not funding any new research here. How can you have a graduate institute in technology with no research, pHds, or even undergrads? What are the diploma's going to say? GIX, UW, Tsinghua, Microsoft?

You could make this argument for any nascent learning institution. Obviously, they're going to do what anyone does when starting a school: pull respected faculty from other schools, start new research programs and import research-in-progress if possible, hire PHDs and other lecturers, and eventually develop an undergraduate program.

And I'd guess that since the Global Innovation Exchange will be the name of the school, that's what the diplomas will say too.

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