The State Department and the Department of Education are investigating Duke University and the University of North Dakota over allegedly violating foreign funding disclosure rules.
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 requires postsecondary institutions that receive federal financial assistance to disclose the source of foreign gifts and contracts with an annual value of $250,000 or more, according to a Sept. 16 statement.
The law aims to counter undue foreign influence in America’s higher education sector. Both universities receive taxpayer support to develop crucial technologies.
However, a review of records submitted by the universities “indicated the submission of incomplete, inaccurate, and untimely disclosures,” the Department of Education said in the statement….