(Bloomberg) — The Trump Administration demanded Harvard University share information going years back on donations and contracts from foreign countries, opening a new front in its battle against the institution.
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The Education Department said it sent a records request to Harvard after a review of the university’s foreign reports revealed “incomplete and inaccurate disclosures,” according to statement from the Education Department Friday.
Harvard said in a statement that it has complied with the law, reporting gifts and contracts from foreign sources more than $250,000 a year.
“Throughout Harvard’s history, support from alumni and donors at all levels has been essential to our continued excellence in our research and teaching mission,” the statement read. Harvard counts more than 400,000 living alumni, including 69,000 in about 200 countries.
The administration is returning to inquires it opened during Trump’s first term over foreign donations and contracts to colleges.
For decades, Congress has required universities that receive federal financial aid to disclose gifts, contracts, or restricted agreements from foreign sources valued at $250,000 or more annually. A bill that passed out of the House last month would lower the threshold to $50,000.
The letter disclosed on Friday details a series of records Harvard must produce within 30 days, such as the identities of parties involved in each of Harvard’s foreign gifts and a list of researchers, scholars, students, and faculty at Harvard since 2010 who are from or affiliated with foreign governments.
(Updates details from record demand in the last paragraph.)
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