American universities have been under pressure to close their Confucius Institutes. UCLA seemed to be one of the last holdouts. But if you click on http://www.confucius.ucla.edu/, you will now get an error message. Yours truly checked the Wayback Machine on Archive.org which recreates the web in the past. The last time Wayback had a reference to UCLA's Confucius Institute was Dec. 22, 2020. See the image above. Apparently, Confucius did not make it into 2021.
From Inside Higher Ed yesterday: The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that would restrict colleges hosting Confucius Institutes from receiving all federal funding other than student financial aid unless the college ensures that the agreement establishing the institute has clear provisions protecting academic freedom and granting the college full managerial authority over the institute. The agreements also must prohibit the application of any foreign law on the college's campus. The bill, which passed the Senate with unanimous consent, has not yet been taken up by the House of Representatives...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/03/08/senate-passes-bill-targeting-confucius-institutes
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