Pervez Hoodbhoy, a renowned Pakistani nuclear scientist, introduced a course on science and world affairs, including Islam's relationship with science, at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, one of the country's most progressive universities.
"More progressive universities recognise that this is an industry of the future," Mr Moore told BBC News, adding that he expected the firm to expand its presence in the country.
Some years ago, the court was confronted with a challenge to the Solomon Amendment, which tried to get even with progressive universities who treated military recruiters in an unkind and unflattering way because of the military's policies to expel active homosexuals or those who disclosed their homosexual tendencies.
"I've seen it happening with my progressive university friends," Lim said.
Over the decades, two other sitting presidents have visited the campus of this famously liberal, progressive university in this famously liberal, progressive city.
The former Secretary of State spoke at the New School, a progressive university in Greenwich Village, criticised Republicans for their "trickle down economics".
Schmidt is wiry and intense, and although she was fond of Charlottesville, she was cold-eyed about its politics: "People like to think that we're this progressive university place.
For a clothing label that's as much a college staple as hazing and keggers, and whose staff is predominantly recent graduates, Abercrombie & Fitch has a center of operations that looks appropriately like a progressive university.
Mr Kerrey, who has spent the past decade running a "progressive" university in Greenwich Village, trails badly in the polls.Where the plan starts to go wrongIn North Dakota, however, the race to replace another retiring Democrat, Kent Conrad, is unexpectedly close.
ON an isthmus sandwiched by Lakes Mendota and Monona, Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, is a progressive university town noted for the good life: sailing, paddling and windsurfing in the summer; cross-country skiing, hiking and ice-skating in the winter (which can be so cold, in fact, that bundled-up Madisonians take on a unisex look); good old Midwestern values all year-round.
The entrepreneurial university plays a role in NIS as an "umbrella of the self-steering, self-reliant and progressive university," taking risks, strengthened steering core; expanding developmental periphery; diversifying funding base; stimulating academic heartland; and overall integrating the entrepreneurial culture (Burton 2001).
