Trump admin reveals first-of-its-kind funding data in elite college crackdown
Source: msn/Axios
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The Trump administration is casting new scrutiny on foreign funding at U.S. colleges and universities — a push critics say is part of a broader effort to assert control over higher education under the guise of national security.
The big picture: The Department of Education is pointing to newly-revealed data on foreign gifts and contracts to schools as a national security issue, which is misleading, Alexander Cooley, a political scientist researching foreign authoritarian influence, tells Axios.
Driving the news: The Education Department on Wednesday released foreign funding disclosure data submitted by colleges and universities for 2025, "documenting over 8,300 transactions worth more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and contracts."
More than half of that went to just four schools: Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, Stanford University and Harvard University. The largest foreign sources of funding came from Qatar (over $1.1 billion), the United Kingdom (over $633 million), Switzerland (over $451 million), Japan (over $374 million), Germany (over $292 million), and Saudi Arabia (over $285 million), according to the department. The data is now available for "public inspection" via an online portal.
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