We need much stricter enforcement of the various foreign-influence laws.
via campusreform
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Colleges and universities across America failed to report nearly $1 billion in foreign gifts between 2013 and 2018.
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The foreign gifts include money from China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
Universities and colleges across the United States failed to report nearly $1 billion in foreign gifts from 2013-2018, despite legal requirements from the Department of Education, according to the Clarion Project.
Campus Reform previously reported the investigation launched by the Department of Education into Harvard and Yale’s undisclosed foreign gifts. Since then, the Clarion Project has revealed that more than $10 billion has flowed from foreign countries to colleges and universities from the United States since 2012. However, a significant portion of these gifts remain undisclosed.
According to a report from the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, foreign government spending is a “black hole” and often goes unreported.
The Clarion Project has found that colleges and universities failed to report funding from countries such as China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
More than $140 million dollars in funding from China to 48 universities and 281 contracts have gone undisclosed.
About $500,000 in funding from Russia to New York University went undisclosed in 2018.
Over $70 million dollars in funding from Saudia Arabia to 19 universities and 193 contracts have gone undisclosed.
The Senate Subcommittee also found that the Chinese government has been using Confucius Institutes’ “soft power” to “encourage complacency towards China’s pervasive, long-term initiatives against both government critics at home and businesses and academic institutions abroad.”
The Department of Education is concerned about colleges and universities giving “unprecedented levels of access to foreign governments, corporations and persons without adequate oversight.”
The Department of Education also said, “These colleges and universities actively solicit foreign governments, corporations, and nationals for funds although some donors are known to be hostile to the United States and may be seeking to project ‘soft power,’ steal sensitive and proprietary research and development data and other intellectual property, and spread propaganda benefitting foreign governments.”
h/t GR