Chinese money is flooding into American higher education — with little transparency
NY Post | Betsy DeVos
Former Secretary of Education DeVos writes on the potential strings attached and national security implications of Chinese donations to American Universities. “China, like many of our global adversaries, is attempting nothing short of espionage via America’s colleges and universities — buying its way into influencing teaching, stealing our intellectual property and manipulating US foreign policy.”
“Reviews of just 12 higher-ed institutions conducted while I was secretary revealed more than $6.5 billion in previously unreported foreign contributions. That’s likely just scratching the surface of how much undisclosed foreign money has been injected into American academia.”
The remedy? DeVos and others argue for transparency. “Unfortunately, the higher-ed lobby has made it no secret it opposes true transparency… Universities, especially those that are publicly funded, should make crystal clear what foreign funding they accept and what, if any, strings or expectations are attached.”
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Bari Weiss Talks to Mike Pompeo [About Universities’ Connectivity to China] (Honestly podcast 7/1/22)
Protecting Higher Education from Foreign Threats Act | 117th Congress (2021-2022) | Library of Congress
Mark Rubio Letter to Harvard President Bacow (U.S. Senate, 6/15/22)
Rubio questions Harvard on Fauci-China cover-up (Spectator World, 6/15/22)
After Confucius Institutes (National Association of Scholars, 6/15/22)
Congress targets Harvard, Yale and Top Universities with China-Linked Endowments (Politico, 6/9/22)
Harvard and the Fight for Foreign Collaboration (Crimson, 5/26/22)
The Harvard Connection (The Spectator World, 5/26/22)
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Harvard Leads U.S. Colleges That Received $1B from China (Bloomberg, February 2020)
The Department of Education Funding Database - foreign gifts and contracts (self-reported by institutions).
