Education Dept Boosts Portal to Track Foreign Funding of Colleges

The Department of Education says it has improved a portal that requires higher education institutions to report the source of foreign donations and contracts to the federal government.

“After years of neglect by the Biden administration, the new portal will assist our institutions of higher education in fulfilling their statutory responsibilities and enable us to protect our national security by facilitating improved compliance,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Monday in a news release.

“America’s taxpayer-funded colleges and universities have both a moral and legal obligation to be fully transparent with the U.S. government and the American people about their foreign financial relationships.”