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Texas A&M to Review Controversial Qatar Campus Proposal

December 20, 2021

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Texas A&M University announced plans last week for a committee charged with reviewing a controversial proposal to reorganize the arts and sciences programs at the Qatar campus and relegate arts and science faculty to second-class status relative to engineering faculty.

Faculty had raised alarms that the proposal—which had a proposed effective date of Jan. 1—had been developed without faculty input, in violation of the university’s policies. Timothy P. Scott, Texas A&M’s interim provost, said during a Faculty Senate meeting last week that administrators “tapped on the brakes and said nothing is going forward in January” and would set up a committee to review the proposal.

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