By Steven Richards | Just the News
Early in his second term, Trump directed the Education and Justice Departments to enforce federal laws surrounding the disclosure of foreign funding on U.S. campuses after what he viewed as lax enforcement during the Biden administration.
With a new tool publicizing foreign funding to U.S. universities, the Trump administration has fulfilled an early promise to end secrecy around contributions from other governments and to ramp up public scrutiny of such contributions.
The data show that the top ten contributors provided nearly $63 billion in foreign funding to higher education institutions. Several of these governments are close U.S. allies and partners, including the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan.
Problematic contributions
Contributions from other governments, including the Middle Eastern monarchy of Qatar and China — through the mainland and Hong Kong governments — have each raised significant concerns in the past about how these governments may be influencing public opinion through their contributions or seeking to transfer sensitive research.
In a late April executive order, President Donald Trump promised to “end the secrecy” in foreign funding to U.S. colleges and universities, ending what the administration viewed as a lax approach by its predecessor.
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