CENTRAL ASIA GETS LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOL - 2002-08-27

The Moscow Times - In Central Asia, where authoritarian leaders thwart democracy and Islamic militancy is a threat, a group of international scholars are creating a regional university to bring secular education to people in some of the remotest, most forbidding and poverty-stricken regions. 'We want to give them the opportunity to be modern and remain where their forefathers have lived,' said S. Frederick Starr, the chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and a member of the team devising the new institution, the University of Central Asia.