2026年2月23日 美国东部时间晚上10:52 / 路透社
华盛顿，2月23日（路透社） – 官员们周一表示，特朗普政府正在加大工作力度，以揭露其认为存在于美国高校的恶意外国影响。他们同时宣布，国务院将协助教育部开展这项工作。
唐纳德·特朗普总统曾就亲巴勒斯坦抗议美国盟友以色列在加沙战争、跨性别政策、气候倡议以及多元化、公平与包容项目等问题威胁削减大学的联邦资金，这引发了关于言论自由和学术自由的担忧。
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2025年4月，特朗普发布行政命令，要求执行《高等教育法》第117条。该条款要求接受联邦资金的大学报告来自任何外国来源、价值超过25万美元的礼物或合同。教育部于去年12月推出了一个新的门户网站，供大学报告此类资金。
主管公共外交事务的副部长萨拉·罗杰斯表示，国务院的新角色将“确保联邦政府开展更有力的合规保证工作”。
罗杰斯在国务院的吹风会上对记者说：“国务院将运用我们在国家安全方面的专业知识以及对抗外国恶意影响的专业知识，来支持教育部的监督工作。”
官员们拒绝具体说明外国资金如何不当影响高等教育机构的例子，并表示他们主要是寻求提高大学的合规性并提高透明度。
美国参议院调查小组委员会2019年发布的一份报告记录了中国对美国教育体系的影响，引发了对披露规则重新执行的关注。
教育部在一份声明中表示，2025年美国高校披露了8300笔交易，总额达52亿美元，其中包括政府以及私营公司和个人的资金。报告称，去年最大的资金来源是卡塔尔（11亿美元），其次是英国（6.33亿美元）和中国（5.28亿美元）。
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Trump administration steps up efforts to scrutinize foreign funding of universities
February 23, 2026 10:52 PM UTC / Reuters
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is stepping up work to uncover what it sees as malign foreign influence at U.S. colleges and universities, officials said on Monday as they announced that the State Department would assist the Department of Education in that effort.
President Donald Trump has threatened to cut federal funding to universities over issues such as pro-Palestinian protests against U.S. ally Israel’s war in Gaza, transgender policies, climate initiatives and diversity, equity and inclusion programs, raising free speech and academic freedom concerns.
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Trump in April 2025 issued an executive order calling for enforcement of Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which requires colleges that receive federal funding to report gifts or contracts worth more than $250,000 from any foreign source, and the Department of Education in December launched a new portal for universities to report that funding.
Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers said the State Department’s new role would “ensure an invigorated compliance assurance effort by the federal government.”
“The Department of State will be applying our national security expertise and our expertise countering foreign malign influence to bolster oversight efforts by the Department of Education,” Rogers told reporters in a briefing at the State Department.
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Officials declined to spell out specific examples of how foreign funding had unduly influenced higher education institutions, and said they were primarily seeking to boost compliance by the universities and improve transparency.
The U.S. Senate subcommittee on investigations in 2019 issued a report documenting China’s impact on the U.S. education system, sparking renewed enforcement of the disclosure rules.
U.S. colleges and universities disclosed 8,300 transactions totaling $5.2 billion in 2025 – which includes funding from governments as well as private companies and individuals, the education department said in a statement. The largest source of funding last year was Qatar ($1.1 billion), followed by Britain ($633 million) and China ($528 million), it said.
Editing by Stephen Coates
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