Chinese Communist Party – The College Fix

Foreign governments gave Harvard $218 million in less than two years

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:10:00 +0000

China gave $16 million to the Ivy League university Harvard has received more than $218 million from foreign governments since Jan. 2022. “The report comes amid an ongoing investigation by the Department of Education that began in 2020 on the grounds of Harvard allegedly soliciting funding from foreign governments,” The Harvard Crimson reported last week. The United Kingdom gave the most to…

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MIT keeps donation from company that helps surveil Uyghurs in China

Aidan Mays - Franciscan University of Steubenville — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 04:04:44 +0000

Donation’s use ‘on hold,’ according to university The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will keep a donation from a company that assists in the surveillance of Uighurs held captive by the Chinese Communist Party. The remaining donation from SenseTime will remain in the university’s bank account despite sanctions against the company from the current and prior presidential administration.

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Former Harvard chair who lied about Chinese payoff sentenced to two days in prison

Laurel Wood - Pepperdine University — Fri, 26 May 2023 04:04:58 +0000

Chemistry professor collaborated with Chinese Wuhan University university on ‘fundamental research’ Former Harvard chemistry chair Charles Lieber received two days in prison, six months house arrest, and a fine for hiding Chinese government affiliations and a $50,000 monthly salary. Harvard also allowed him to retire quietly. “Two of Lieber’s attorneys reached by phone all declined to…

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British leadership won’t shutter China-sponsored Confucius Institutes

Sylvie Patterson - Trinity University — Wed, 17 May 2023 04:03:09 +0000

‘The data indicates that British universities are operating Confucius Institutes illegally,’ watchdog stated Thirty branches of Chinese Communist Party-run Confucius Institutes remain open in the United Kingdom thanks to a reversal from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Government funding for Mandarin teaching at branches will end, but they will not be closed, The Guardian reported April 24.

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Chinese firm can buy Princeton Review companies with military contracts: regulator

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Wed, 17 May 2023 01:01:48 +0000

Tutor.com has a longstanding contract with the U.S. military A Chinese company received U.S. regulatory approval to buy two popular test-prep companies more than a year after closing the deal. Primavera Capital Group, a Chinese private-equity firm based in Hong Kong, bought Princeton Review and Tutor.com from Korean company ST Unitas in January 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

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Cornell faculty condemn university’s CCP partnerships

Joseph Hobbs - MIT — Tue, 02 May 2023 04:01:28 +0000

Sponsor warns of ‘ethical and intellectual compromises’ that come with partnering with China The Cornell Faculty Senate recently passed a resolution that condemned the Chinese Communist Party and asked the university to protect freedom of academic expression at home and abroad. The Faculty Senate passed Resolution 184 in light of the Chinese Communist Party’s politically and socially…

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Students blocked Maoist China survivor from giving speech; she gave it off-campus instead

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:02:42 +0000

‘Our goal here is to not bring someone that is harmful,’ a member of the student government said A Chinese immigrant who survived Mao’s Communist regime spoke off campus in Spokane, Washington, a few weeks after the Whitworth University student government rejected a proposal to bring her to the college, alleging her speech would be “harmful.” The Associated Students of Whitworth University had…

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Communist China heavily funds Harvard, Stanford, many other top universities: report

Kate Roberson - Brigham Young University — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:00:33 +0000

‘If you want to control the mind and economy of a country, you control the education system,’ scholar said Ivy League universities and other top schools have received tens or hundreds of millions of dollars from the Chinese Communist Party as part of the Chinese government’s conscious strategy to “infiltrate and influence” U.S. academia, a new report argues. “Based on my organization’s…

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Alabama university closes China-sponsored Confucius Institute

Tate Miller - Liberty University — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 04:02:46 +0000

Institute follows ‘a pro-China narrative,’ experts say An Alabama university shut down earlier this month its on-campus Confucius Institute, a Chinese language educational center funded by the Chinese Communist Party. Troy University trustees cited “federal regulations that will limit the availability of funding to institutions that maintain their agreements with Chinese partners…

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Higher ed should disclose China financial ties or lose federal dollars: analysis

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 05:00:28 +0000

Chinese influence on American higher education must be monitored with laws that have teeth American colleges and universities should lose their federal funding if they fail to disclose major financial dealings with the Chinese Communist Party. I agree with this thesis, put forth by Robert Eitel and Paul Moore in a Feb. 14 article on RealClearEducation. Higher education’s negligence in making…

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