President Donald J. Trump\u2019s Executive Order 14282, \u201cTransparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities,\u201d requires improved interagency efforts to safeguard America\u2019s students and research from foreign exploitation. \u00a0Accordingly, the U.S. Department of State announced today that, under a new interagency partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) will provide vital support in administering Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965. \u00a0The partnership will enhance U.S. national security by improving the accuracy and transparency of American colleges\u2019 and universities\u2019 reporting of foreign gifts and contracts.<\/p>\n
Established through an interagency cooperation agreement signed by Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers and Department of Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent, this partnership leverages the State Department\u2019s expertise in national security and foreign-national academic admissions. \u00a0As a result, data gathered from the Section 117 reporting portal can be easily used by national security experts and the public, ensuring the Department of State is able to address potential threats and protect vital interests decisively and proactively.\u00a0\u00a0Section 117 of the Higher Education Act obligates U.S. colleges and universities to disclose gifts and contracts from a foreign source that in combination total $250,000 or more in a calendar year. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Learn more from the Department of Education by reading the\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0fact sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald J. Trump\u2019s Executive Order 14282, \u201cTransparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities,\u201d requires improved interagency efforts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-486280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}