Posted on 06/11/2025 12:44:42 PM PDT by T Ruth
Harvard received more than $100 million in contributions from government sources in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bangladesh in the last four years, according to data released by the Department of Education.
The University received more than $151 million in total contributions from foreign governments between January 2020 and October 2024 — making up more than 13 percent of the total $1.1 billion received from foreign donors over the same period.
In compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, universities report contracts and gifts from foreign sources larger than $250,000. Harvard is the largest recipient of foreign investment among its Ivy-league peers, receiving nearly $200 million more than the second-highest recipient, Cornell University.
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Harvard has been repeatedly criticized for accepting donations from governments, and universities’ financial ties to Iran and China have been the subject of particular scrutiny.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce revealed in May that top Harvard officials considered investigating foreign donations after former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s Antisemitism Advisory Group raised concerns about the influence of donors from the Middle East.
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Still, Terry W. Hartle, a senior fellow at the American Council on Education said it is difficult to draw conclusions from the Section 117 data about where individual contributions come from and how foreign funding is used.
“There are a lot of grants and contracts that colleges, universities take or receive from foreign individuals, corporations and governments,” he said. “It is, in essence, a haystack.”
“It probably undercounts — maybe by a lot — the influence of foreign money,” Currell added.
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Why then does Fedgov give a penny to harvweeeird?
......Why then does Fedgov give a penny to Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc.?.....
For essential research on cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, ALS, etc. etc.
These attacks on university research may turn the USA into a Fourth-World nation!
the Harvard administration is so rotten that I’d favor seizing the property entoto, paying fair compensation as necessary, and turning it into a good quality school again under morally- decent administrators. And including a good solid array of modern trades-oriented training opportunities.
plus parts of the campus could become very nice public park areas
Now do Penn.
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