Qatar has dumped over $6 billion into American universities in the last four decades, according to a bombshell new report.

Universities in the US face the possibility of federal funding cuts if they don’t comply with White House demands to walk ...

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As of 2016, according to a Washington Post review of funding records, Qatar was spending a total of $405 million a year to cover the upkeep of six U.S. universities that operate their own satellite ...

On one hand, US officials and pundits privately ... Stephen Eisenman says that on one hand, Qatar’s higher-education funding is no “worse than any other foreign money.” ...

For decades, Qatar has been secretly funding elite US universities. Since 2012, Qatar has been the top foreign funder to ...

Who’s funding all of this? According to a 2022 report from the National Association of Scholars, Qatar invested a staggering $4.7 billion in US higher education between 2001 and 2021.

For too long, foreign actors have influenced our higher education to ... at $2.3 billion, and Qatar at $2 billion. Harvard University received the most foreign funding at $3.2 billion with Cornell ...