<p>As a U.S. university professor, I find it very difficult to imagine that a school with only 160 students per year could offer a curriculum or faculty anything like a top U.S. university in terms of the range of course offerings or the range of specializations, publications, and years of teaching experience of the resident faculty.</p>
<p>For example, an Ivy League level biology or chemistry department would have at least 20 professors with a wide range of specializations, and many full professors who are leaders in their fields. How many biology or chemistry full professors are resident at NYUAD and what are their backgrounds?</p>
<p>My own field is philosophy, and I note there is only one resident philosophy professor at NYUAD and he has never held a full-time university position in the U.S. This does not make for a philosophy department anything like a U.S. philosophy department, and certainly not anything like an Ivy League philosophy department.</p>
<p>Can you tell us anything about your own experience at NYUAD?</p>