The University of Connecticut has dropped plans, for now, to open a branch campus in the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, according to today’s Journal Enquirer, a Connecticut newspaper. In an e-mail message cited by the paper, the university’s provost said “legal and jurisdictional issues” explained why a “planning grant contract” between UConn and Dubai had not been signed. The official, Peter L. Nicholls, did not specify the nature of those issues, although the Journal Enquirer noted that a state lawmaker had criticized the emirate’s human-rights record and an American Jewish group had assailed its ban on Israeli citizens. The provost said he understood that Dubai was talking with other American universities.
February 20, 2007
UConn Abandons Plan to Open Campus in Persian Gulf Emirate
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