"Too many colleges are acting in the interest of building prestige over providing an affordable pathway to higher learning for their students," Segal said.
So what does it mean when a German architect goes to work building prestige projects in Saudi Arabia, a country ruled by Sharia law, where women are oppressed, gays can be executed and the religious police are waging a war on "witchcraft"?
Mary — the adjacent city and provincial capital — was half boomtown, half slum: filled with the requisite gold statues and portraits, white marble government buildings, prestige projects (an opera house, luxury hotels, a pointless flyover), and boulevards almost empty of traffic.
Patrick Foye, executive director of the port authority, opened the building earlier this month saying the building "sets new standards of design, construction, prestige, and sustainability".
He said his university benefited, too, attracting students it would not otherwise have, building its prestige and revenues.
Louis continued his father's pacification program by building the prestige of the kingship through an administrative government based on trustworthy men of humble origin and by consolidating his rule over his royal domains rather than by adding new acquisitions.
More frequently, women devote their lives to promoting their husbands' careers and building their prestige, only to find that they have been abandoned for younger women more in tune with their husbands' new social ambitions.
For Stephen Cummings, Wachovia's senior executive vice president for corporate and investment banking services, the building's prestige and its Midtown location near some of the bank's chief competitors enhanced the image it was seeking to create in the industry.
"This is a great way of building reputation, prestige and word of mouth.
Centuries ago church-commissioned domes towered above secular buildings in prestige.
Its streets are crammed with the relics of its history: Ottoman and French colonial buildings, modernist prestige projects from the cultural boom of the 1950s and 1960s.
