- President Donald Trump’s Department of Education has launched an investigation into foreign cash secretly flowing into U.S. universities and sent letters to Georgetown University and Texas A&M Thursday.
- A Senate report found that 70 percent of colleges that took money from a Chinese propaganda program broke the law by not disclosing it.
- Almost all of the colleges that have a contract with the U.S. government to shape the way U.S. textbooks teach about the Middle East received massive funding from countries in the region.
- The letter also asked Georgetown about a possible connection to a Russian cybersecurity firm.
The Department of Education is going after U.S universities over supposed ties to foreign governments, after some allegedly took huge quantities of foreign cash and hid it from regulators.
At the top of the list are Georgetown University and Texas A&M, which have taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar, a middle eastern nation with suspected links to international terrorism.
Both schools received letters from the Department of Education on Thursday saying they should have disclosed that funding but their filings “may not fully capture” the activity, the Associated Press reported. The letter warned that they could be referred to the attorney general to “compel compliance.”
Georgetown was also asked about possible ties to Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as Saudi Arabian money, and both schools were ordered to disclose funding from Huawei and ZTE, Chinese firms suspected of spying.
| Country | Amount |
|---|---|
| Qatar | $1,024,065,043 |
| England | $761,586,394 |
| Saudi Arabia | $613,608,797 |
| China | $426,526,085 |
| Canada | $402,535,603 |
| Hong Kong | $394,446,859 |
China
In February, a Senate investigative subcommittee released a bipartisan, 100-page report that found that not only had China been pouring money into the U.S. for a program linked to propaganda efforts, a huge percentage of U.S. colleges had violated the law by hiding the money.
“Since 2006, the Subcommittee determined China directly provided over $158 million in funding to U.S. schools for Confucius Institutes,” the report said. “The Department of Education requires all post-secondary schools to report foreign gifts of $250,000 or more from a single source within a calendar year of receiving them. Despite that legal requirement, nearly 70 percent of U.S. schools that received more than $250,000 from Hanban failed to properly report that amount,” it continued.
Yet the Department of Justice told Senate investigators it had no indication that the Department of Education has ever tried to take U.S. colleges to court for allegedly violating the law.
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