UC-Berkeley Negotiating Deal with Saudi University

Edumacation: Why is it the same liberal multicults, everyone is equal and has rights blah blah blah are so quick to take money from a regime that is the opposite of everything they spew out?

The University of California at Berkeley is working on a partnership deal with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Under the arrangement, which the Times says could be made final as early as Tuesday, Berkeley faculty members would collaborate on research and help the Saudi university hire professors. Some faculty members at Berkeley are upset about the pending deal, concerned that the $10-billion university will discriminate against women and others and limit academic freedom. Their worries are echoed by critics of another pending deal, between Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Saudi Arabia, to start an engineering program at Jubail University College there. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Cal Poly would receive $5.9-million over five years to create an engineering curriculum, build laboratories, and train teachers, but only men would qualify to take or teach engineering classes at the school. At Berkeley, the Times reports, a committee of the Academic Senate voted in favor of the deal with King Abdullah University.