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QATARI QUESTIONS The skyline of Doha, Qatar, where Northwestern and five other U.S. universities have branches in a campus called Education City. After visiting NU-Q last January, Prof. Stephen Eisenman published a report in which he raised questions about censorship and academic freedom at the school.
Prof’s concerns about NU-Qatar remain By PETER KOTECKI
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One year after former Faculty Senate President Stephen Eisenman visited Northwestern’s campus in Doha, Qatar, the art history professor’s concerns about Northwestern University in Qatar remain. In a report released last March, Eisenman raised questions regarding
censorship, faculty appointment and academic freedom at NU-Qatar, which is one of six U.S. schools with branches in Education City, a multi-university campus on the outskirts of Doha. In the report, Eisenman noted the faculty at NU-Qatar have limited academic freedom. “This is not so much because they fear they will run a foul of Qatar’s strict censorship laws, though that is a possibility, but because most are untenured and largely answerable to the NU-Q dean
alone,” he said in the report. Full academic freedom is essential, Eisenman told The Daily. “That’s why we have tenure,” he said. “It’s to allow people like me to say critical things about our programs without fear of my job being lost. It also allows someone to say controversial things about culture and society.” In addition to his observations, Eisenman’s report included nine proposals related to his concerns. Among them was the recommendation that NU-Qatar
encourage the expansion of scholarship programs, which are funded by the Qatar Foundation — the education nonprofit organization that oversees Education City — to provide aid for low-income and non-Qatari students. Eisenman also proposed NU-Qatar create a policy governing faculty appointments, as well as a shared governance structure for faculty to have a voice in the structure of programs. He also recommended NU-Qatar consider appointing faculty members for five-year
terms, as contracts currently range from one to four years. “In the absence of tenure, long-term contracts can provide stability, improve morale and advance academic freedom,” he said in the report. “In the unlikely event that a term of hire exceeds the length of the contract with the Qatar Foundation, faculty members should be allowed to complete their terms in Evanston.” » See QATAR, page 6
Former Ambassador prepares for Buffet Institute Karl Eikenberry will leave Stanford to take over as director in September By DAVID FISHMAN
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Karl Eikenberry does not have a Ph.D., an endless cache of academic papers or a CV chock-full of scholarly designations. Instead, his background includes two tours in Afghanistan, two years as an ambassador and numerous military decorations. In September, Eikenberry will become executive director of The Buffett Institute for Global Studies. Stipulated in a donation by Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ‘54) that exceeded $100 million, the new position will oversee allocation of funding and help shape the Buffett Institute’s future. But Eikenberry, who once commanded a multi-billion dollar operation in Afghanistan, is prepared.
Illinois IDs, licenses valid in airports until 2018
The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that Illinois residents can use their driver’s licenses and state IDs to get through airport security until January 2018, despite Illinois’ failure to adopt
“He’s had an extraordinarily distinguished policy career as a senior military officer and as an ambassador,” said Northwestern President emeritus Henry Bienen, who chaired the search committee that hired Eikenberry. “If you look at senior military people today, many of them, like Ambassador Eikenberry, are extremely sophisticated politically and bureaucratically.” Eikenberry is currently at Stanford University, where he has more departmental associations than any other faculty member. Prior to that, he spent 35 years in the U.S. Army working his way up to lieutenant general before retiring in 2009 to become President Obama’s ambassador to Afghanistan. But long before his prestigious rank and illustrious career, Eikenberry recalls dinner time with his father, whose experiences
in World War II would eventually inspire Eikenberry’s military service. Born in Hammond, Indiana, an hour drive from Evanston, he moved around a lot as a child, traveling from New York to “most of the midwest” and observing radically different cultures along the way. “The move we made from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Goldsboro, North Carolina, in 1966 was quite memorable because the difference of society was quite striking,” said Eikenberry, who holds a key to the city of Goldsboro. After high school, Eikenberry continued on to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. There, he focused on academics and took advantage of a “liberal arts education,” studying Chinese and finishing eighth in a class of 850 students. His studies led him down a path that allowed him to form close ties with China and the
Asia Pacific region. When he first traveled to Taiwan at age 19, he “fell in love.” But ultimately, it was Afghanistan that came to define his career. Eikenberry served twice in Afghanistan, first as a security coordinator and chief of the Office of Military Cooperation, then as commander of all American-led coalition forces. Both tours were “challenging,” Eikenberry said, and at times he doubted himself, but a strong underlying belief in his mission kept him going. “The first lesson I learned is the importance as a leader to work together with your team and develop a collective sense of ownership of the mission,” he said. Experts dubbed Eikenberry’s 2009 appointment as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan “highly unusual” at the time.
federal standards on IDs. Illinois was denied an extension on the 2005 Real ID Act in December for not meeting the act’s requirements, such as providing proof of legal U.S. residency when acquiring a driver’s license. While consequences of not complying with the Real ID Act won’t affect Illinois fliers for another two years, federal buildings no longer recognize Illinois IDs as sufficient
for entrance, the DHS said. Federal buildings, such as military bases, were expected to have alternate forms of identification outlined by January 10. Airports were also supposed to have rules for Illinois residents by then to go into effect mid-2016, but were not released with the extension. State identification will not be recognized as federally valid until Illinois meets all standards for the Real ID Act, which will cost the state
up to $60 million, said David Druker, Illinois Secretary of State spokesman. Secretary of State officials plan to work with the state’s General Assembly about working toward funding the necessary changes over the course of two to three years to bring the state into compliance with Real ID standards. Jan. 22, 2018 will be a hard deadline for noncompliant states that haven’t been granted extensions by
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the DHS, said Secretary Jeh C. Johnson in a press release Friday. Current states that are not compliant without extension also include Minnesota and Missouri. “Given today’s threat environment, this requirement is as relevant now as it was when the 9/11 Commission recommended it,” Johnson said in the release. — Robin Opsahl
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