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Audio: Twitter Gets Royal Treatment
December 19, 2011
Marwan Kraidy of the Annenberg School for Communication discusses a Saudi prince’s of a large stake in Twitter.
Article Source: “Marketplace” American Public Media
Tilghman to Be Trustee of New Saudi University
October 8, 2008
President Tilghman will serve on the board of trustees of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a new research university in Saudi Arabia, Princeton announced Monday.
Article Source: Daily Princetonian
U.S. Universities Join Saudis in Partnerships
March 6, 2008
Three prominent American universities — the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University — are starting five-year partnerships, worth $25 million or more, with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, a graduate-level research university being built in Saudi Arabia.
Article Source: New York Times
From Bay Area to Red Sea
March 5, 2008
Two prominent California universities announced lucrative five-year contracts Tuesday to recruit faculty for and undertake collaborative research with an as-yet unopened Saudi Arabian university.
Article Source: Inside Higher Ed
Cal Poly SLO's Saudi Proposal Generates Anger
February 27, 2008
If Cal Poly San Luis Obispo had wanted to start an engineering program for a university in someplace like Norway, the proposal probably would have sailed through without much comment either on campus or off. But the school's plan to start an engineering department in Saudi Arabia is a different story.
Article Source: Los Angeles Times
Saudi King Tries to Grow Modern Ideas in Desert
October 26, 2007
On a marshy peninsula 50 miles from this Red Sea port, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a gargantuan bid to catch up with the West in science and technology. King Abdullah has broken taboos, declaring that the Arabs have fallen critically behind much of the modern world in intellectual achievement. Between an oil refinery and the sea, the monarch is building from scratch a graduate research institution that will have one of the 10 largest endowments in the world, worth more than $10 billion.
Article Source: New York Times
Supporting Saudi Students
August 16, 2007
With the recent influx of Saudi Arabian students sponsored by their government, many American campuses have scrambled to become more attractive to this growing cohort. Very suddenly, says Susan Sutton, associate dean for the Office of International Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, “There became a visible Middle Eastern presence when we hadn’t had such a presence in awhile.”
Article Source: Inside Higher Ed
