From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard disclosed more than $36 million in gifts from sources attributed to China and Hong Kong that carried financial aid preferences tied to students’ countries, nationalities, geographic regions, or international status, according to a Crimson analysis of federal foreign-funding records. But only about $4 million explicitly preferred Chinese or Hong Kong students. Most of the remaining gifts used generic language — such as “preference given to students from a particular country” — without naming the country, and records elsewhere in the database show that the preferred country often differed from the source of the gift.
The China-linked funding is part of a much broader pattern. Harvard disclosed roughly $210 million in foreign gifts carrying geographic or nationality-based financial aid preferences, more than any other university in the federal database. About $127 million — 61 percent of the total — did not publicly identify the preferred country. These gifts are at the center of a Department of Justice investigation into whether Harvard violated federal civil rights law by accepting foreign funding that carried preferences for students from particular countries...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/7/27/doj-harvard-china-financial-aid-data/.
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