by A.P.
The Department of Education has opened investigations into multiple American colleges and universities, looking into whether they reported gifts or contracts coming from foreign sources.
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the Department of Education sent letters to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Auburn University, Florida State University, Georgia State University, the University of Nevada, and the University of New Mexico over possible violations of Section 117, which requires colleges and universities to disclose gifts or contracts from foreign sources exceeding $250,000.
The Department of Education’s letter to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee stated that the university has self-described “collaboration with foreign sources,” which includes “partnership agreements with over 200 institutions worldwide.”
Despite these partnership agreements, however, the DOE stated that “UWM has apparently never filed a Section 117 report.”The letter informed the university that it had 21 days to provide documentation showing all “gift or donation agreements and/or contracts” from foreign sources dating back to January 1, 2016.
