Mexican universities eye U.S. expansion

By Matt Krupnick. In an ethnically themed shopping center called Plaza Mexico, just south of Los Angeles, a public university from the Mexican state of Colima has planted its flag. 
Alongside the shopping center’s stores and taquerias, the Universidad de Colima offers mostly remedial education in reading, writing and math to about 100 adult Mexican immigrants. But a handful of students here are also preparing to take their final exams for Mexican degrees, just one of several recent efforts by Mexican universities to branch into providing full-fledged university educations in the United States. More...