#foreign-funding

#foreign-funding

Policymakers are further proposing to lower that threshold to $50,000 and require universities to obtain federal waivers before entering into contracts with "foreign countries of concern."

The Trump administration is cracking down on foreign funding at top research universities, emphasizing enforcement of Section 117 of the Higher Education Act for disclosing foreign gifts.

In 2020, less than 300 of the 6,000 schools required to disclose donations had done so, revealing around $6.5 billion in unreported foreign funding.

"There are currently laws on the books requiring certain disclosures of universities when they accept large foreign gifts... We believe that certain universities, including, for example, Harvard, have routinely violated this law..."