As a follow-up to this morning’s piece, I did some digging into the data. Under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, institutions of higher education that receive federal financial assistance must disclose any gifts from a foreign source. This website allows you to access the data, which I have crunched for you. You can download the same source data and play around with it at your convenience.
I analyzed all gifts since 2012 (both received and contracted). The scale of the numbers is quite alarming. Below is a summary of gifts from a select group of countries. I picked these countries because of a random graphic I saw on Twitter that purported to show this data but undercounted it quite a bit.
That is right. Qatar has given $5.4 billion to American universities since 2012. China has given $3.7 billion. How are we allowing our adversaries to use their funds to influence American education this way? This must stop!
In case you’re curious, here are the schools that received the most donations by Qatar and China. Admittedly I had to look up Kean University as I had never heard of it. I have to assume that it is some kind of front. $411 million of donations is too much to make sense in any other way.