Republican lawmakers from three House investigative committees have asked the University of Pennsylvania to disclose funding sources for its academic institute focused on diplomacy and foreign policy that’s named after President Joe Biden, amid concerns of foreign influence.
In a Jan. 28 letter to the president of the university, Amy Gutmann, the Congress members asked her to provide records of China’s funding to both the university and the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement to “help us better understand the depth and breadth of foreign influence and investment in U.S. higher education, as well as the University of Pennsylvania’s and the Biden Center’s ties to China.”
