Harvard Received Over $1.1 Billion in Foreign Funding Since 2012, per Department of Education Report

The Crimson ^ | October 22, 2020 | Ellen M. Burnstein

[DoodleBob]

Harvard has received over $1.1 billion in foreign funding since 2012, per an initial Department of Education report.

The DOE report — released Tuesday — examined Harvard and other universities’ compliance with foreign funding criteria. Its release comes as department officials are investigating Harvard’s funding from contracts or gifts connected to the governments of China, Iran, Russia, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

Under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, American universities are required to disclose all donations of over $250,000 from a foreign source.

In February, the Department asked Harvard to release information on funding from two Chinese telecommunications companies, Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp.; two Russian entities, the Kaspersky Lab and Skolkovo Foundation; Iran’s Alavi Foundation; the Wuhan University of Technology in China; and other organizations.

Harvard has complied with the ongoing investigation, University spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain wrote in an email.

“Harvard has filed Section 117 reports for decades and will continue to do so. In line with the Feb. 11 request from DOE, the University has submitted updated Section 117 reports for the period 2014 to 2018, as well as its regular filings for 2019 and 2020, to date,” he wrote.

Swain added that the University had recently updated its disclosure forums to reflect Department of Education criteria. In doing so, Harvard widened the range of contracts included in its reports, with most of the additions stemming from “contract amounts from the sale and licensing of academic publications and from offering executive education programs.”

Harvard is one of 12 institutions currently under investigation. The Department is also examining funding practices at MIT, Yale University, Stanford University, Georgetown University, University of Texas, Cornell University, Texas A&M University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Case Western Reserve University, and Fordham University.

The unredacted portions of the DOE report includes detailed findings about several of those schools. In Harvard’s case, however, federal investigators wrote that a review of donations records the University turned over was “ongoing” at the time of publication.

The Department cited charges against embattled chemistry professor Charles M. Lieber as an example of the “scope of the problem” of foreign funding. Federal officials indicted Lieber in June, alleging that he lied to federal investigators about his affiliation with the Chinese Government’s Thousand Talents Program.

The DOE also criticized Harvard’s previously-reported financial links to the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which the report dubbed “a high-profile example illustrating the presence of unexamined “dark money” in the U.S. education system.” It is “unclear” whether these funds should have been reported under section 117, the report notes.

“Harvard’s self-described improper vetting of domestic contributions raises questions about its foreign gifts and contract reporting procedures,” the report reads.

[DoodleBob]

The full DOE report can be found here and I recommend saving it before it's deleted by any incoming administration. It contains a number of problematic findings, including:

Then, in February 2019, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental A airs issued a comprehensive bipartisan report on Chinese Communist Party propaganda operations on U.S. campuses.17 China’s Impact on the U.S. Education System found these operations were part of “China’s broader, long-term strategy ... to change the impression in the United States and around the world that China is an economic and security threat.”18 Furthermore, these “soft power” operations encourage “complacency towards China’s pervasive, long-term initiatives against both government critics at home and businesses and academic institutions abroad.”19 It also found foreign government propaganda and in uence e orts, in the form of “investments” in U.S. higher education industry are “e ectively a black hole” because up to 70% of all U.S. colleges and universities fail to comply with the law, and those that do substantially underreport.20 Congress also noted the Department’s historic failure to enforce the law.

[Delta 21]

For over the last decade, Ft Hays state University in Hays KS has been developing and promoting their cooperation with and “sister universities” with schools in China proper.

Just 30 miles away and they have been strangely quiet since the China virus thing got started.

[Delta 21]

In conclusion:

Compliant Section 117 reporting requires a significant culture change in the higher education industry. Our investigations have identified facts suggesting institutions vigorously pursue foreign money, on the one hand, but provide generally ineffective or nonexistent oversight of foreign source activities, whether on U.S. campuses or on branded foreign campuses, on the other. This raises disturbing national security questions, among other issues.

[maggief]

https://silview.media/2020/11/26/we-found-the-missing-link-in-thegreatreset-scheme/

WE FOUND THE MISSING LINK IN #THEGREATRESET SCHEME

In my latest article I dared everyone to find out the identity of Klaus Schwab’s parents (the mastermind behind WEF / The Great Reset). No one has provided so far, the call is still open for all researchers. But at least I’m now able to prove who his spiritual parent is and how that falls in the grand scheme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtZzxjRQIbY&feature=emb_logo

Kissinger is my Harvard teacher, one of my greatest influences.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3910169/posts

11/27/2020

DoD Removes Kissinger, Albright From Policy Board

[lgjhn23]

This is just one facet of the multi-faceted attempt of the communist overthrow of the USA. It’s taken them many years to pull it off, but the communists have been highly successful. With the inauguration of Chairman Jao as POTUS, they will have, in essence, overthrown the USA as we know it without even firing a single shot.

[silent majority rising]

How much does the ‘media’ receive from foreign sources? How many so called ‘reporters’ receive compensation from foreign sources like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc. Perhaps if Justice were doing their jobs, we could find out how much bribery is going on to affect the American Elections.

[hal ogen]

So many quislings and traitors...so little time.

[Vaduz]

$1.1 billion in foreign funding
Not a proud school to be from.

[Liz]

Harvard is one of 12 institutions currently under investigation WRT foreign funding:
includes MIT, Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, U of Texas, Cornell, Texas A&M, Rutgers,
U of Maryland, Case Western Reserve, and Fordham.

AND THIS “I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life,”
Democrat Joe Biden asserted at a presidential debate with Pres Donald Trump.

Biden Center Under Investigation for Illegal Donations From China
DB Daily Update | David Blackmon / FR Posted on 5/25/2020, 9:19:56 AM by EyesOfTX

If the label says “Biden,” it was definitely influenced by China.

Ace reporter John Solomon at his website, JustTheNews.com, is reporting that The National Legal and Policy Center has asked the US Dept of Ed to investigate its findings that (Penn State) the University of Pennsylvania, over the past several years, has accepted more than $22 million in anonymous China-originated donations to the school's "Biden Center", and failed to properly disclose the contributions.

From Solomon’s report: The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has accepted around $22 million in anonymous funding from Chinese sources. That’s out of a total of more than $70 million from Chinese donors during that time, the NLPC said. Those significant funds, including the anonymous amounts, rolled in after the Biden Center was announced in early 2017 and launched in February 2018. The center is located in downtown Washington, D.C.

Federal records show that the University of Pennsylvania has received significant donations from China since the opening of the center. One 2018 donation alone totals $14.5 million; it is listed as “anonymous” in federal records. The NLPC alleges the university may have violated federal law in accepting those anonymous monetary donations. The Higher Education Act mandates schools report the national origins of any donations above $250,000 although not necessarily the individual names of donors themselves. [End]

Chinese money directed to Biden serves as just one more reminder that the Biden Crime Family have long been in the pockets of Chinese interests.

The stark reality facing our country today is that, should Biden manage to win, all of the gains President Donald Trump has made through the sheer force of his will in terms of U.S./China relations and trade policy will be immediately reversed the day after Biden assumes office.

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If you like the fact that virtually all U.S. antibiotics and PPE are sourced through China at some point along their supply chains and want it to stay that way, vote for Biden. Because that would be a fait accompli should he win. There are trillions of dollars at stake, and Creepy Uncle Quid Pro China Joe wants to ensure the Biden Crime Family continues to get its (gag) fair share.

[Liz]

Georgetown is currently under investigation WRT foreign funding......

Georgetown is Bill Clinton's alma mater. Georgetown received huge donations from Mid-East countries.....and so did the Clintons.

In Nov 2016, Reuters reported "The Clinton Foundation" confirmed accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was Obama's SofS
without informing the State Dept, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments."

NOTE: Ex-Pres Clinton made a special trip to Qatar panhandling for donations. As a result, Qatar is a big league donor to (A) the Clinton Library in Arkansas .(B) to Bill Clinton’s alma mater, Georgetown U, and, (C) to the Clinton Foundarion.

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Then-Secy of State Clinton is all smiles as she meets with Billionaire
Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, 21 Sept 2010.

REFERENCE: In Nov 2016, Reuters reported that "The Clinton Foundation confirmed a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was US Secy of State without informing the State Dept, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments."

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin opined that the Qatari gift "raised ethical questions" because of the nation's support for Hamas.

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“Qatar Papers”, a book published last April by two French investigative journalists Christian Chesnot et Georges Malbrunot,
revealed that the charity organisations receiving Qatari donations were all controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.

[DoodleBob]

Chairman Jao