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THE BATTALK
Qatar
Continued from page 1A
said Adair Margo, a coordinating
board member. Qatar is at least
700 miles from the Iraqi border.
A&M is making sure its
agreement with Qatar addresses
safety. The foundation has agreed
to reimburse the university for
evacuation expenses if the school
believes it’s not safe for its facul
ty to remain there.
"It's a huge opportunity for
Texas A&M and for this
nation," Margo said. "I like the
way they're moving ahead with
boldness."
A&M wants to start offering
classes in Qatar in September.
"We're not closing our eyes to
the whole question of security in
the Middle East," said David
Prior, A&M's interim provost.
"The question of when we can
begin and the appropriate time
we can start depends on the situ
ation in the next few months."
The engineering school in
Qatar would start with about 50
students and then grow to about
400. A&M would pick four pro
fessors for the first school year,
then eventually expand to 60.
Four engineering departments
from A&M would
be represented in
the venture,
including petrole
um and chemical
engineering,
which would offer
standard under
graduate degree
programs.
“They would
have essentially
the same curricu
lum as A&M’s
main campus,”
said Hans
Juvkam-Wold,
interim head of
the petroleum
engineering
department.
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The Qatar Foundation si;
a 10-year, $750 million coit:
with Cornell for the mei
school and a 10-year, $50 rail
contract with Vii|;
Commonwealth for its prop
The latter deal has since It
increased to about $100 mil
Qatar's ruler, Sheik H
bin Khalifa A1 Thani, an
wife specifically sought
grams ranked highly in
News & World Report's
college guide.
"The idea of being there
Cornell and Georgetown
with A&M's philosophy,
are top institutions," Prior
"We want to be known, vi
and active internationally."
Thomas Blasingame,
A&M associate professor
petroleum engineering, sai;
shouldn't be hard to persuade
lessors to go to Qatar, whiefe
half of the largest gas field in
world and the largest liqiii
natural gas facility.
"This is the center of the
verse for oil exploration and
duction," Blasingame said.
Blasingame said he woul
willing to teach there becausti
the research opportunities andl
chance to play a role in a
try's transformation.
Qatar's nl
came into po
by birthright,
o.
The idea of being the emir is tak ^fjrstbasemar
there with Cornell
and Georgetown fits
in with A&M's
philosophy. We
want to be known,
visible and active
internationally
steps to create
more re presec
live govemnti:
Education Cin
a part of
country's m
ernization.
"It will be
outpost of note
a generation
two," Biasing®
said. "It will
— David Prior
A&M interim provost
Approximately three-quarters
of the students at the Qatar
branch campus would be Qatari,
the other quarter would most like
ly include students from other
Middle Eastern countries. There
will also be many opportunities
for the exchange of students
between main campus and the
branch, said Juvkam-Wold.
“They are going to be
Aggies,” he said.
Included at the branch campus
will be ample research facilities
for visiting professors as well as
possible research programs.
A&M would join other well-
known universities in Education
City, a complex of buildings on
2,400 acres "sprouting in the
middle of the desert," Prior said.
Virginia Commonwealth
University began running a
school of the arts in Qatar in
1998. Last fall, Cornell
University opened the medical
school, and the country's ruler is
negotiating with Georgetown
and Carnegie Mellon. Qatar
wants Georgetown to run a for
eign service and diplomacy
school and Carnegie Mellon a
business school.
democracy
human rights."
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in June, the university h.f e ; ame . P a,r c
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Richard Toscan, dean of therll^’ Big
versity's School of the Arts, ® wm over t* 16
The design program is
change for Qatar, whicA/OT
had a design profession beb
he said.
"The culture there has
dictatorial," Toscan said,
think we're going to haveapn
substantial impact on the thinh]
in the country because of thei
we teach design in America,
about thinking outside theboi
A&M will offer engineer!
to men and women in the sD
classroom, as Cornell does in*
medical school in Qatar. Qaiari
like Aggies in College Statior
public university students af
where in Texas, will have toll
Texas history.
Prior wasn’t sure if Qataris'-
dents would attend Fish Camp
"They will get an Aggie dip
ma," he said. "They will be elf
ble to get an Aggie ring."
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