House Committee Moves to Tighten up on Foreign Gifts to Universities, Colleges

A House committee has approved a bill that, if passed, would lower the threshold at which foreign gifts to universities are required to be reported.

The Confucius Institute building on the campus of Troy University, in Troy, Ala., on March 16, 2018. Kreeder13/Wikimedia Commons

A House committee has approved a bill that would further regulate foreign financial gifts to American universities and levy hefty fines against those who fail to comply.

A bipartisan majority of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce voted on Nov. 7 to approve the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act.