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U.S. Colleges Have Accepted $6 Billion in Undisclosed Donations from Foreign Governments, DOE Probe Finds

The Department of Education has discovered at least $6 billion in unreported donations to American universities from adversarial foreign nations, Townhall reported on Friday.

The DoE revealed its updates in a May 19 letter to Congress and a subsequent briefing to several ranking House Republicans who are conducting an investigation into the foreign funding of U.S. educational institutions.

The investigation was spurred by increasing reports of Chinese funding at U.S. educational institutions, including the prevalence of Confucius institutes on U.S. campuses. Confucius institutes are Chinese-government funded centers which ostensibly promote Chinese language and culture, but which U.S. agencies have warned spread propaganda for China’s government.

“Some [Institutions of Higher Education] leaders are starting to acknowledge the threat of foreign academic espionage and have been working with federal law enforcement to address gaps in reporting and transparency,” the letter from the DoE’s Office of the General Counsel reads. “However, the evidence suggests massive investments of foreign money have bred dependency and distorted the decision-making, mission, and values of too many institutions.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-s ... obe-finds/

Colleges stonewall feds on China records

--The Department of Education says colleges are blocking attempts to obtain documents pertaining to foreign gifts.

--Among the countries from which the colleges have received money are China, Russia, and Iran.

The U.S. Department of Education launched a federal investigation into Harvard and Yale Universities in February regarding alleged undisclosed foreign gifts, including ones from China, but the department has yet to receive all of the documents it requested from the Ivy League institutions in order to conduct a thorough a complete probe.

In a letter obtained by Campus Reform, Principal Deputy General Counsel Reed Rubinstein writes to eight of the members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, that the institutions in question are attempting to stonewall administration in its attempt to obtain what it sees as relevant documents pertaining to the alleged foreign interference in the American higher education system....

"The Department is evaluating its available statutory and regulatory options if negotiations and compromise fail....[W]e are consulting with the U.S. Department of Justice and others to explore all potential pathways for full and fair disclosure of IHE foreign funding."

Just since February, the Education Department has launched investigations into three major universities - Harvard, Yale, and the University of Texas - for their alleged undisclosed foreign ties. The Education Department asked Harvard and Yale in February to disclose any funding they may have received from China, Iran, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Records pertaining to the University of Texas' ties to a Wuhan biolab were requested by the federal government in April, as Campus Reform also reported.

https://campusreform.org/?ID=14935