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Texas A&M’s Board of Regents voted to shutter its long-standing, hugely profitable branch campus in the Gulf country. Are accusations of Hamas ties to blame? The Texas A&M system Board of Regents voted last Thursday to close their branch campus in Doha, Qatar. No incoming class will be admitted for this fall, according to a system spokesperson, and the campus will cease operations by 2028.
Exclusive: Qatar Foundation says they had been confident until the end their relationship with Texas A&M University was moving 'in a very positive direction'
The school had recently defended itself against criticism over the security of its research and its partnership with the Qatar Foundation.
PHILADELPHIA – February 9, 2024 – Milstein Writing Fellow Benjamin Weinthal's reporting on Texas A&M University's dangerous research agreement with Qatar has helped push the university Board of Regents to close its Qatar campus (known as TAMUQ) by 2028.
Texas A&M University will close its 20-year-old campus in Qatar by 2028. University board members noted instability in the Middle East as a reason to review the school's presence in the country. The school had recently defended itself against criticism over security of its research and and its partnership with the Qatar Foundation. The school has called that criticism unfounded and unrelated to the decision to shutter the Qatar campus. Texas A&M is one of several U.S. schools with a presence in Qatar. The Qatar Foundation criticized the closure as influenced by a disinformation ca...