Georgetown Extends Qatar Contract Amid Trump Fight With Colleges

Georgetown University is renewing its contract for its foreign services school in Qatar by a decade, extending an overseas partnership at a time when the Trump administration has frozen federal funding to other US colleges.

The partnership with the Qatar Foundation now ends in 2035 and could later be expanded to additional programs, said Francisco Marmolejo, president of higher education at the government-backed foundation.

Six American universities have operated campuses in Qatar for two decades. The deals have brought in money while expanding their brands in a different part of the world and helping educate thousands of foreign students.

Still, ...