Education Department Probes Berkeley Over Alleged Failure to Report Chinese Donations

The University of California, Berkeley, is under investigation for allegedly not reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from a Chinese entity and allegedly sharing information about an “important technology,” the Department of Education announced on April 25.
The research university will have 30 days to comply with a record request in this matter, a senior official said during a press call.
Officials did not detail the link between Chinese contributions to Berkeley and the sharing of the technology. A release sent after the call noted that the activities being questioned date back to 2023, when the elite school revealed a “fundamental misunderstanding” of its reporting obligations….