As the Drew Pavlou saga is exposing for all the world to see, Australia’s universities have been thoroughly infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party.
While many academics have at least the poor excuse of ideological sympathy to the communist dictatorship, many others seem merely happy to sell the souls of their institutions. Academic integrity, freedom of speech, the human rights of their own students – all have been cast aside in a grubby grab for cold, hard cash.
But this indecent greed is not confined to Australian campuses. The US government is investigating universities in that country – and it looks like some of them have a lot to hide.
The U.S. Department of Education launched a federal investigation into Harvard and Yale Universities in February regarding alleged undisclosed foreign gifts, including ones from China, but the department has yet to receive all of the documents it requested from the Ivy League institutions in order to conduct a thorough a complete probe.
In a letter obtained by Campus Reform, Principal Deputy General Counsel Reed Rubinstein writes to eight of the members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, that the institutions in question are attempting to stonewall administration in its attempt to obtain what it sees as relevant documents pertaining to the alleged foreign interference in the American higher education system.
Noting that the colleges “claimed Freedom of Information Act exemptions and legal privileges to block record production to Congress,” the letter says that “the Department has yet to receive critical information needed to confirm the accuracy of previously submitted…reports.”
“Certain institutions have yet to produce requested emails, metadata, and other information regarding business relationships with, and faculty funding from, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Russian foreign sources,” the letter continues. “The Department is negotiating for this important information and hopes to have access to all relevant records (and witness interviews, if appropriate) in the near term.”
This investigation into foreign infiltration is hitting some of the most prestigious names in US higher education.
Just since February, the Education Department has launched investigations into three major universities – Harvard, Yale, and the University of Texas – for their alleged undisclosed foreign ties. The Education Department asked Harvard and Yale in February to disclose any funding they may have received from China, Iran, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Records pertaining to the University of Texas’ ties to a Wuhan biolab were requested by the federal government in April, as Campus Reform also reported.
Harvard, Yale, and the University of Texas did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication.
Other elite colleges, such as the University of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Cornell, Texas A&M, and Georgetown University, have also been investigated in the past year alone over their disclosure of foreign gifts.
Seriously. Just bulldoze the lot and rebuild the university sector from scratch.
The Dwayne Hicks option is all we’ve got left.
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