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UC Berkeley seeks partnership with Saudi school (Cal Poly Eng. Program Bans Women)
The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog ^ | 2-29-08 | Matt Krupnick

Posted on 03/02/2008 10:20:30 AM PST by SeafoodGumbo

The University of California at Berkeley is working on a partnership deal with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the San Jose Mercury News reports.

Under the arrangement, which the Times says could be made final as early as Tuesday, Berkeley faculty members would collaborate on research and help the Saudi university hire professors.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; highereducation; kaust; saudiarabia; sharia; ucberkeley
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To: null and void
I went to Pomona...

Me too. BSME in 1994.

21 posted on 03/02/2008 1:04:14 PM PST by idkfa
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To: idkfa

I escaped the BSEE program in ‘76.


22 posted on 03/02/2008 1:05:41 PM PST by null and void (I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
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To: EagleUSA

How fast the left crumbles before Islam. Harvard has just decided to have women-only hours in its gym because the Muslims demanded it.


23 posted on 03/02/2008 2:57:13 PM PST by livius
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Some will compromise everything to get some of that Saudi $$$.


24 posted on 03/02/2008 10:57:13 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Cal Poly probably doesn’t have a Womyn’s Studies Dept, but I betcha UC -Berkeley does. Wonder what those womyn will have to say?


25 posted on 03/03/2008 6:28:25 AM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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