Education Department Asks Harvard for Foreign Funders’ List After University Submits Inaccurate Records

The agency is demanding details such as names, addresses, and contact info of foreign funding sources.

A woman walks on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on April 15, 2025. Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters

The Department of Education has sent a “records request” to Harvard University after a review of the institution’s reports found that its foreign funding disclosures were “incomplete and inaccurate,” the agency stated in an April 18 statement.

The request for records, made in an April 17 letter to the university, gives the institution 30 calendar days to submit documents related to grants, gifts, and contracts from foreign sources, as well as other information.