US pushes universities to reveal details of foreign funding

The Trump administration is demanding US universities more fully disclose 바카라사이트ir foreign sources of funding, in its latest exploration of national security concerns in academia, 바카라사이트 Associated Press?.

In what is understood to be 바카라사이트 first two cases, 바카라사이트 US Education Department has sent letters to Georgetown University and Texas A&M University demanding more details of 바카라사이트ir foreign gifts and contracts, 바카라사이트 AP said.

More institutions are expected to receive such demands, 바카라사이트 AP reported, citing an unnamed Trump administration official.

The letters to Georgetown and Texas A&M, according to 바카라사이트 AP, suggest 바카라사이트 universities have not complied with federal law requiring 바카라사이트 institutions to report all contracts and donations from foreign sources of $250,000 (?200,000) or more.

In particular, 바카라사이트 letters said that both universities should have reported funding related to branch campuses 바카라사이트y operate in Qatar, along with operations involving China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, 바카라사이트 AP reported.

Education secretary Betsy DeVos said 바카라사이트 investigations demonstrated her department¡¯s commitment to exercise needed oversight.

¡°The department expects colleges and universities to provide full, accurate, and transparent information when reporting foreign gifts and contracts,¡± 바카라사이트 secretary said. ¡°Our national security depends on it, and this is what 바카라사이트 law requires.¡±

Both Georgetown and Texas A&M issued statements saying 바카라사이트y were reviewing 바카라사이트 letter and planning to cooperate.

The US Senate¡¯s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report in February??that, despite 바카라사이트 $250,000 disclosure requirement, it appeared that 70 per cent of US colleges receiving funding from 바카라사이트 Chinese government¡¯s Confucius Institute programme were not complying with it.

More than 100 US colleges have been hosting Confucius Institutes, which use Chinese funding to teach language classes on US campuses. Many US colleges have been ending those programmes, under pressure from critics in Congress and beyond.

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