Foreign funding of US academia

 China, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are three of the top five countries that have donated billions of dollars to American universities. “Roughly one out of every four of those [gifts and grants] have come from" China, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, which "often don't have U.S. interests at heart," according to Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open The Books.

American universities and colleges have received $43 Billion from foreign countries and adversaries since 1990. Three of the top five countries that have pumped money into higher education in the U.S. are China, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Read more at The Jerusalem Post → Approximately $13 billion in undisclosed foreign funds, a substantial portion from authoritarian regimes, has been linked to a staggering 300% rise in antisemitism at U.S. universities, according to a new study. Read more at The National Desk →

https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/billions-of-dollars-in-foreign-funding-sent-to-top-us-colleges-and-universities-ivy-league-institutions-qatar-saudi-arabia-china-foreign-adversaries-higher-education

The Deterrent Act, a bipartisan bill passed by congress to lower the reporting threshold of foreign governments and entities of concern from $250,000 to $50,000 is opposed by higher education groups, such as ACE

https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Groups-Oppose-DETERRENT-Act.aspx

Approximately $13 billion in undisclosed foreign funds, a substantial portion from authoritarian regimes, has been linked to a staggering 300% rise in antisemitism at U.S. universities, according to a new study.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-774728

China sends more students to study at U.S. universities than any other nation and is the largest source of foreign donations to American higher education, making more than $1 billion in gifts since 2014. Last year, former Republican President Donald Trump's Department of Education accused universities of failing to disclose hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign donations, including from China.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senators-want-review-chinese-donations-us-universities-2021-05-26/

Overview 

Foreign nations have donated $43 billion to American universities since 1990. The Department of Education published a report in October 2020 that highlighted funding from foreign adversaries was "massively underreported" by elite universities. The conclusions were drawn from investigations into the underreporting of millions of dollars' worth of gifts and contracts from China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar at twelve prestigious American universities. Since 1986, Universities were required by the federal government to report gifts and contracts they received from overseas nations but the reporting requirements had been hampered by lax federal oversight. To further increase transparency, Congress recently passed a bipartisan bill tightening the requirements for reporting foreign gifts. Lowering the reporting threshold from $250,000 to $50,000. For adversarial countries, the threshold would be $0. The Deterrent Act passed the U.S. House on December 6, 2023, with 31 Democrats voting with Republicans to pass the bill. According to a recent study, higher levels of campus antisemitism and a decline in free speech norms are associated with unreported foreign funding of American universities from authoritarian governments. An astounding 300% increase in antisemitism at U.S. universities has been linked to $13 billion in undisclosed foreign funds from 2014 to 2019. The undisclosed donations had been made by governments in the Middle East, China, and Russia. Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown Universities were among the top recipients of concealed donations. China, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are three of the top five countries that have donated billions of dollars to American universities. “Roughly one out of every four of those [gifts and grants] have come from" China, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, which "often don't have U.S. interests at heart," according to Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open The Books. The largest source of funding was Qatar, which contributed about $5 billion, and Saudi Arabia, which contributed about $3 billion. Chinese students attend American universities at a higher rate than those of any other nation, and since 2014, the Chinese government has given more than $1 billion to support higher education in the country.

https://www.offthepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Foreign-Funding-of-U.S.-Academia-12-19-23.pdf