Posted on 02/12/2020 1:03:41 PM PST by karpov
The Education Department opened investigations into Harvard and Yale as part of a continuing review that has found U.S. universities failed to report at least $6.5 billion in foreign funding from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia, according to department materials viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The investigations into the Ivy League schools are the latest in a clash between U.S. universities and a coalition of federal officials including law enforcement, research funders such as the National Institutes of Health and Defense and Energy Departments, and a bipartisan group in Congress that has raised concerns about the reliance of higher-education institutions on foreign money, particularly from China.
A Harvard spokesman said the university is working on a response. A Yale spokeswoman didn’t immediately have a comment.
The Education Department described higher-education institutions in the U.S., in a document viewed by the Journal, as “multi-billion dollar, multi-national enterprises using opaque foundations, foreign campuses, and other sophisticated legal structures to generate revenue.”
Officials accused schools of actively soliciting money from foreign governments, companies and nationals known to be hostile to the U.S. and potentially in search of opportunities to steal research and “spread propaganda benefitting foreign governments,” according to the document.
In addition, while the department said it has found foreign money generally flows to the country’s richest universities, “such money apparently does not reduce or otherwise offset American students’ tuition costs,” the document said.
U.S. officials say China uses a variety of means to target academia, including government-funded talent recruitment programs such as the Thousand Talents Plan. The arrest last month of the chairman of Harvard’s chemistry department on federal charges of lying about receiving millions of dollars in Chinese funding through the program while the U.S. shelled out more than $15 million to fund his research group
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You don't say.
More winning.
Good. We should close down the current scam that is higher ed and start over!
In addition, while the department said it has found foreign money generally flows to the country’s richest universities, “such money apparently does not reduce or otherwise offset American students’ tuition costs,” the document said.
So where did the millions of $’s go in these so called non profits?
Probably going on for decades.
Collusion. Emoluments. Bribes.
They ought to consider turning most of it back to reduce student debt and tuition.
The large universities are every bit as corrupt as Washington, DC.
There is no such thing as a little corruption.
It started in the athletic departments and spread from there throughout, ending in corrupting the research departments in the various disciplines.
Government grants.
Into what they call endowments....banked savings assets probably profitably invested for growth.
Yes it is brewing scandal and a scam.
The arrest last month of the chairman of Harvard’s chemistry department on federal charges of lying about receiving millions of dollars in Chinese funding through the program while the U.S. shelled out more than $15 million to fund his research group
Why does the government fund any of this when these colleges are swimming in endowment money? Are these more quid pro quo funds getting kick backed to politicians?
I probably already know the answer.
Totally agree!
It also started with “tutors” to help “student-athletes” get their assignments done. Now there is no student they won’t do the work for and pass to keep the student loans flowing.
Your accusation applies only to the the deep state wing of the federal government.
Memo to deep state: you’ve been acting like a virus, so you’re being treated like one.
Thousands of foreign students are paying full price to these wealthy schools, their governments paying the bills. Many foreign professors and graduate students are paid spies, over 100 at Texas A &M alone. Our greedy universities are ripping off our own students and our country.
FINALLY!! For years our federally funded schools have been indoctrinating our kids with communism. Time to pull all funding from schools who are seeding our country with little communists in training.
The best politicians, et al that money can buy
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