{"id":40941,"date":"2025-04-26T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=40941"},"modified":"2025-04-26T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:11:33","slug":"department-of-education-launches-investigation-into-uc-berkeley-alleging-failure-to-properly-disclose-foreign-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/department-of-education-launches-investigation-into-uc-berkeley-alleging-failure-to-properly-disclose-foreign-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Education launches investigation into UC Berkeley, alleging failure to properly disclose foreign funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/users\/profile\/Eleanor%20Dalton\">Eleanor Dalton | Senior Staff<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apr 25, 2025 (DailyCal.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/dailycal.org\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/1\/14\/1140f2de-14bf-4f80-b7dd-c3e826dfc3e1\/680bd52a2dfa4.image.jpg?resize=400%2C258\" alt=\"investigation_Sam Clayton_Staff.jpg\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/users\/profile\/Sam%20Clayton\">Sam Clayton | Staff<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Education initiated a Notice of Investigation and Records Request into UC Berkeley on Friday, alleging that campus\u2019s foreign funding disclosures to the department may be \u201cincomplete or inaccurate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation comes as the department has resumed enforcement responsibilities relating to disclosure of foreign gifts and contracts under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, according to a press release. On April 18, a Section 117 investigation was also filed against Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move follows an executive order signed Wednesday that instructed the secretary of education to \u201creverse or rescind any actions by the prior Administration that allow universities to obscure details regarding their foreign funding\u201d and \u201crequire universities to disclose the true source and purpose of foreign funds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department\u2019s press release appears to reference a May 2023 article from The Daily Beast alleging that campus did not disclose a $220 million donation from the Chinese government. At the time, campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof told The Daily Californian that the allegations were false, calling The Daily Beast\u2019s article \u201crife with errors and significant omissions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its release, the department claimed that in two responses to a letter from the department dated June and July 2023, campus \u201cacknowledged\u201d a failure to report the alleged foreign funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver the course of the last two years, UC Berkeley has been cooperating with federal inquiries regarding (Section) 117 reporting issues, and we will continue to do so,\u201d Mogulof said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This investigation is among&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/news\/campus\/department-of-education-to-investigate-uc-berkeley-for-dei-related-claims\/article_2dd0841e-00fe-11f0-9811-b7806d2cc630.html\">multiple others<\/a>&nbsp;announced against both campus and the UC system since the Trump administration assumed leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Education initiated a Notice of Investigation and Records Request into UC Berkeley on Friday, alleging that campus\u2019s foreign funding disclosures to the department may be \u201cincomplete or inaccurate.\u201d The investigation comes as the department has resumed enforcement responsibilities relating to disclosure of foreign gifts and contracts&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/department-of-education-launches-investigation-into-uc-berkeley-alleging-failure-to-properly-disclose-foreign-funding\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40942,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40941\/revisions\/40942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}