Northwestern University on Tuesday announced that former president Henry S. Bienen, who led the university from 1995 to 2009, will replace outgoing president Michael Schill. Northwestern’s satellite campus in Qatar marred Schill’s tenure, particularly in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attacks that drew attention to the foreign and domestic sources fueling campus anti-Semitism. So it is perhaps ironic that Northwestern has tapped the man who launched the university’s Qatar campus to replace him. Bienen established the university’s Qatar campus during his first stint as president, signing a contract with the Hamas-allied Gulf state that prohibits students and faculty in Doha from criticizing the Qatari regime.
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