(The Center Square) – The United States Department of Education is investigating the University of California, Berkeley for not reporting significant funding from the Chinese government.
“The Biden-Harris Administration turned a blind eye to colleges and universities’ legal obligations by deprioritizing oversight and allowing foreign gifts to pour onto American campuses,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “I have great confidence in my Office of General Counsel to investigate these matters fully, and they will begin by thoroughly examining U.C. Berkeley’s apparent failure to fully and accurately disclose significant funding received from foreign sources.”
A 2023 House of Representatives investigation found Berkeley violated Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which requires disclosure of foreign funding over $250,000, saying Chinese funding of American research institutions facilitates transfer of American-funded technology with military applications to the Chinese government.
“U.S.-Chinese joint education institutes like U.C. Berkeley’s partnership with Tsinghua University, and the University of Pittsburgh’s partnership with Sichuan University, serve as conduits for transferring critical U.S. technologies and expertise to China, including to entities linked to China’s defense machine and the security apparatus it uses to facilitate human rights abuses,” said Select Committee on the CCP in a report.
At the time, Berkeley told the committee that it is “relinquishing all ownership” in the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute.
It also cited a Trump administration executive order directing the DOE to launch Section 117 investigations to secure compliance with reporting requirements that must be followed to continue receiving federal grant funding.
In its announcement last week of a similar Section 117 investigation into Harvard University, DOE noted, “Noncompliance risks Department of Justice enforcement, including civil actions, or loss of federal funding eligibility.”
The Department of Education says that “Berkeley’s responses revealed a fundamental misunderstanding regarding its Section 117 reporting obligations” in justifying its renewed investigation.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for selling nuclear to the Russians on Hune 19th 1953. Perhaps a few University Presidents need the same treatment to get the 5th columnists eradicated from our high-tech educational systems like by yesterday. Biden’s people were up to their elbows getting rich by selling secrets as well as technology, and many a democrat party traitor needs a ride on old sparky, some at a lethal level, some just to give them a wakeup call. Time to stop all scholarships to students and faculty that fail to pass weekly drug tests but then Berkley would go broke. Any arrests for anything, including protesting on campus while in period of study should remove their Federal scholarship money immediately.
AMEN
We need a full on televised investigation into the corruption of the Brandon/Cackles admin. There is far too much that the American people haven’t been made aware of.
ANd unfortunately i fear we never WILL KNOW the extent of that corruption…
Wide would the feds investigate Berkley when they haven’t done anything the Biden crime family did taking bribes from the CCP…Right?
Berkley didn’t get any presidential pardons…