A report reveals the influence of foreign donations on American universities and their response to geopolitical events.
A 2023 report from the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) is shining a light on foreign donations to American universities and the role they could be playing in influencing college campuses and responses to geopolitical events . The May report, conducted by Mitchell Bard, a foreign policy expert and the executive director of the AICE, found the top donors to American universities are Arab countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Egypt.
Qatar was the largest source of funding, donating roughly $5 billion and was followed by Saudi Arabia donating roughly $3 billion. "Foreign government contributions to universities almost always come with strings attached or, at the very least, ulterior motives," said Ben Freeman, the director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute
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