One of the nation’s largest research universities that has contracts with the U.S. government has failed to report millions in funding from Russia and Qatar in possible violation of federal law, rearcher Neetu Arnold wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Friday.
A U.S. Department of Education investigation into universities’ compliance with Section 117 of the 1965 Higher Education Act, which mandates that U.S. higher education institutions disclose foreign funding above a certain amount, discovered $6.5 billion in previously unreported gifts from entities in China, Russia and Qatar at 12 major institutions, including Texas A&M University, in 2019. Texas A&M continued to not report over $100 million in foreign funding after the investigation closed, according to Arnold, who is a senior research associate with the National Association of Scholars.
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