US universities face federal crackdown over foreign financial influence

August 31, 2019 9:46 AM

WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - The Education Department has begun cracking down on universities that fail to disclose donations and contracts from foreign governments, hoping to give far more scrutiny to funding that has washed into the United States' higher education institutions from countries often at odds with American policies but eager to tap the country's brightest minds.

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The Straits Times World News