Campus Crisis Tests Pacific Island Unity By Peter Eroni
03/09/21 AT 9:57 PM
It may not be as famous as Oxford, as lauded as MIT or as wealthy as Harvard, but the University of the South Pacific might be the most important school you ve never heard of.
Jointly operated by a dozen countries since its inception in 1968, the university has been a fulcrum of public life in the Pacific islands, producing many of the region s presidents, prime ministers, accountants, lawyers, scientists and teachers.
Today though, the university is mired in crisis, with its future and the shining example of regionalism it has represented in serious doubt.
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