Texas A&M University faculty members employed strong words during their Senate meeting Monday to convey displeasure with the university administration’s response to the planned closure of the A&M Qatar campus.
On Feb. 8, the Texas A&M System Board of Regents voted in favor 7-1 to authorize A&M President Mark A. Welsh III to terminate the contract between A&M and the Qatar Foundation and close the campus by 2028. The board’s decision came just weeks after a Washington D.C. think tank named the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Police (ISGAP) published a report claiming that the Qatari government was using A&M’s Qatar campus to access nuclear research, a claim that Welsh labeled as “false and irresponsible” in a Jan. 7 letter to the public. In the same letter, Welsh said the Qatar campus is not involved in any nuclear research.
In a Feb. 8 letter to the public …