Below, an email from Ådne Capellen, an outside NTNU Board member to Prof. Wagner, the former Vice chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University and former Chancellor of the University of Derby in the UK. We got this from a reader.
Dear Prof. Wagner
Your first argument for not supporting a boycott is identical to the view of the Minister for Education expressed in this mornings newspaper (Aftenposten) A board at a Norwegian university cannot (and should not) interfere with the choice of research partners because that would amount to interfering with the academic freedom of the academic staff. That is outside the mandate of the board. So the conclusion is quite obvious. The board simply cannot decide on a boycott. If we did I suppose the minister would simply sack us (or those of us who are external representatives which she has appointed).
Best wishes
Adne Cappelen
Director of Research
Statistics Norway
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