Total waste of money.
For $8,000, six faculty members could have gone to a four-day academic conference in Tampa to share their research.
What's Bresciani going to do? Sign an MOU with a couple of Indian schools that could lead to 200 new graduate students a year who pay $25,000 each annually to get an American education?
eg: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...-been-dramatic