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Education Department Investigating Harvard, Yale Over Foreign Funding. Officials accuse schools across U.S. of soliciting funds from foreign governments, companies known to be hostile to the country
Wall Street Journal ^ | February 12, 2020 | Kate O’Keeffe

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: china; harvard; yale
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“such [foreign] money apparently does not reduce or otherwise offset American students’ tuition costs,”'

You don't say.

1 posted on 02/12/2020 1:03:41 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

More winning.


2 posted on 02/12/2020 1:05:22 PM PST by Grampa Dave (I feel very fortunate to be living in the time of PRESIDENT TRUMP. (Thanks to rrrod!))
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To: karpov

Good. We should close down the current scam that is higher ed and start over!


3 posted on 02/12/2020 1:06:24 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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Officials accuse schools across U.S. of soliciting funds from foreign governments, companies known to be hostile to the country

uhh….we grant MILLIONS of F1 foreign student visas (many coming with OPT work permits) to citizens of these countries EVERY YEAR. And I suspect in the vast majority of cases the tuition is being paid by their governments.

You all are an UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR there, FedGov.


4 posted on 02/12/2020 1:07:17 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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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?


5 posted on 02/12/2020 1:07:41 PM PST by Grampa Dave (I feel very fortunate to be living in the time of PRESIDENT TRUMP. (Thanks to rrrod!))
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To: karpov

Probably going on for decades.


6 posted on 02/12/2020 1:09:47 PM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: karpov

Collusion. Emoluments. Bribes.


7 posted on 02/12/2020 1:11:11 PM PST by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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I do not know where to look for endowment information but rumor is that the BIG US universities are endowed to billion dollar levels.

They ought to consider turning most of it back to reduce student debt and tuition.

8 posted on 02/12/2020 1:11:53 PM PST by Rapscallion
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I mean WHAT THE HELL TOOK SO LONG? These know-it-all so-called "academics" have been indoctrinating generations of our youth in the finer points of their FOREIGN IDEOLOGY! You'd have thought their parents would have noticed why their kids came home after their second year hating them for having the money to send them to HAAAVAAAD, Yale, or Oberlin, etc.
9 posted on 02/12/2020 1:14:22 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
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To: 9YearLurker

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.


10 posted on 02/12/2020 1:14:44 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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So where did the millions of $’s go in these so called non profits?

Into what they call endowments....banked savings assets probably profitably invested for growth.

Yes it is brewing scandal and a scam.

11 posted on 02/12/2020 1:15:53 PM PST by Rapscallion
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Thousand Talents program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Program


12 posted on 02/12/2020 1:16:24 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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I mean WHAT THE HELL TOOK SO LONG? These know-it-all so-called "academics" have been indoctrinating generations of our youth in the finer points of their FOREIGN IDEOLOGY! You'd have thought their parents would have noticed why their kids came home after their second year hating them for having the money to send them to HAAAVAAAD, Yale, or Oberlin, etc.
13 posted on 02/12/2020 1:17:55 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
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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


double dipping on research funds?


14 posted on 02/12/2020 1:19:26 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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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.


15 posted on 02/12/2020 1:26:55 PM PST by vis a vis
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To: old curmudgeon

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.


16 posted on 02/12/2020 1:29:38 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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.


17 posted on 02/12/2020 1:33:12 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: karpov

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.


18 posted on 02/12/2020 1:38:57 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: karpov

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.


19 posted on 02/12/2020 1:40:46 PM PST by boxlunch (Pray for President Trump! Break up the Demomafia/LyinÂ’media/Deep State Axis of Disinformation.)
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The best politicians, et al that money can buy


20 posted on 02/12/2020 1:49:33 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower CIAramella. PASS IT ON)
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