March 14, 2008
Despite Doubts, 3 Prominent Universities Sign Deals With a Saudi University
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the ambitious $10-billion research institution that Saudi Arabia plans to open in 2009, announced last week that it had signed agreements with three leading universities to help it design a curriculum and hire faculty members.
The agreements, with Stanford University and the Universities of California at Berkeley and of Texas at Austin, are the first of several such deals the institution expects to announce with foreign colleges in
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