The Department of Education has sent a “records request” to Harvard University after a review of the institution’s reports found foreign funding disclosures were “incomplete and inaccurate,” the agency said in an April 18 statement.
The request for records, made in an April 17 letter to the university, gives the institution 30 calendar days to submit documents related to grants, gifts, and contracts from foreign sources as well as other information.
Postsecondary institutions receiving federal funding assistance, such as Harvard, are required to disclose the source of foreign gifts and contracts valued at $250,000 or more annually to the Education Department, according to Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965….