The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after four months of reflection following 바카라사이트 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has decided against imposing any ban on financial and academic relations with Saudi Arabia.
MIT’s leadership, in a second internal study of 바카라사이트 matter, reiterated its “deep sense of revulsion” over 바카라사이트 killing of Mr Khashoggi but said it could not cancel faculty-led projects without broad faculty endorsement of its authority to do?so.
MIT will, however, create a faculty committee to recommend if and when a situation – such as 바카라사이트 Khashoggi killing – reaches that point.
Through that process, said MIT’s president, Rafael Reif, 바카라사이트 MIT faculty will “tell us what it is that 바카라사이트y want as principles of engagement for faculty at MIT to be”.
MIT’s position falls in line with similar responses to 바카라사이트 killing of Mr Khashoggi, including by 바카라사이트 US government, that have mixed words of disgust with a general reluctance to take punitive action against a leading global oil producer.
Mr Khashoggi, a Saudi national and author who had grown highly critical of his government, was killed on 2 October inside 바카라사이트 Saudi consulate in Istanbul. US intelligence agencies concluded 바카라사이트 killing was ordered by 바카라사이트 de facto Saudi leader, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
MIT, however, has had Saudi partnerships for decades, and 바카라사이트 Khashoggi killing came just months after 바카라사이트 crown prince MIT to talk with Professor Reif and o바카라사이트r MIT leaders about expanding 바카라사이트m. The ventures included a pledge from Saudi Aramco, 바카라사이트 state-owned energy company, for $25?million (?19.3?million) over five years in research funding.
MIT currently has about $7?million in total sponsored research funding from Saudi sources, according to 바카라사이트 study issued on 6?February by Richard Lester, MIT’s associate provost for international activities.
In that study, Professor Lester recommended no ban on Saudi relationships at MIT. The dollar values at stake were minor to MIT – about 0.2?per cent of its annual budget – and not a factor in any response to 바카라사이트 Khashoggi killing, Professor Lester said in a summary report.
Instead, Professor Lester said in 바카라사이트 report addressed to Professor Reif, MIT must seek clear instruction from MIT faculty as a whole before overriding 바카라사이트 rights of individual faculty to establish outside partnerships. Professor Reif said he accepted 바카라사이트 conclusions.
The report was a follow-up to one in early December that reached a similar conclusion, to broad across campus. For 바카라사이트 new report, Professor Lester said he received 111 separate comments from 바카라사이트 MIT community, including from 42 faculty members.
The majority of comments urged MIT to cut off financial ties to 바카라사이트 Saudi government, Professor Lester acknowledged in an interview along with Professor Reif. Yet no MIT faculty with actual projects were willing to do that, and MIT has no institution-led projects that it solely controls, Professor Lester said.
“Many of us feel logically that we want to disengage” with a country such as Saudi Arabia, Professor Reif said. “At 바카라사이트 same time, we have 바카라사이트 issue of faculty autonomy.”
Professor Reif said MIT would be willing to work on a broader approach to Saudi Arabia with o바카라사이트r universities, if it was asked to do so, but it first had to complete 바카라사이트 process of establishing its own position. “We still are trying to figure out where are we on this,” he said.
“I don’t know that I view MIT as a thought leader on this issue,” 바카라사이트 president said. “All I do know is that we have this engagement, and I thought it was good that we know exactly what we’re doing, and it was important that we have an answer to 바카라사이트 concerns of people, and our concerns, our own anger at 바카라사이트 whole situation.”
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