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Explore the debate and science of Foreign Influence.

May 6, 2025

New Trump Executive Actions: Seeking Transparency and Tearing Down Walls

Kali Jerrard

The deluge of Executive Orders out of the Trump White House provide the first steps in latest reform efforts of academia.

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April 26, 2025

Trump Issues Executive Orders on Accreditation and Foreign Influence

Teresa R. Manning

President Trump has issued a flurry of education-related Executive Orders this month. Two are on issues of concern for the National Association of Scholars: accreditation reform and foreign influence......

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February 19, 2025

California is in Cahoots with China on Climate Policy

Ian Oxnevad

Higher education partnerships between America and China are hurting America's economy while benefitting Beijing.

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January 7, 2025

America’s Education and the Uncomfortable H-1B Visa Debate of 2025

Ian Oxnevad

The role of universities is conspicuously absent from debate over the H-1B program.

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December 17, 2024

The House is Right: Communism Has No Place in American Schools

Ian Oxnevad

Eliminating the neutral teaching of Communism from American schools is a needed step to repair the country’s moral compass.

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October 29, 2024

The Looming Irrelevance of Middle East Study Centers

Ian Oxnevad

Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber.

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October 1, 2024

Foreign Strings Attached

Kali Jerrard

A new report uncovers staggering truths about unreported foreign gifts to American higher education and failures by the Department of Education.

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September 17, 2024

Agents of Chaos at Columbia University

Ian Oxnevad

By the first day of class, Columbia University has managed to combine the blights of Chinese Communist influence, anti-Semitism, incompetent leadership, and intellectual disintegration.

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August 15, 2024

About the Foreign Funds Database

Neetu Arnold

Learn more about our foreign funds database and how to use it. 

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July 23, 2024

Academia's Blind Spot

Ian Oxnevad

China wants access to American universities despite rising nationalism.

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