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Explore the debate and science of Foreign Influence.

March 17, 2026

Safeguarding Academia from Foreign Mischief

Kali Jerrard

New steps are being taken to safeguard American education from malign foreign influence.

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March 13, 2026

Guarding the Front Door While China Uses the Side Entrance to American Education?

Lilla Nora Kiss

Neglecting to apply scrutiny over university–high school partnerships is a mistake.

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March 12, 2026

Testimony: Exposing Malign Foreign Influence in Higher Education

National Association of Scholars

Peruse Peter Wood's remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the “Transparency and Trust: Exposing Malign Foreign Influence in Higher......

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March 3, 2026

The Ayatollah’s Friends are on Your Campus

Kali Jerrard

The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it.

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February 18, 2026

Invisible Networks? What the SAFE Research Act Reveals About US–China Academic Competition

Lilla Nora Kiss

The SAFE Research Act aimed to protect American research from Chinese exploitation. But it left open a critical vulnerability: a class of U.S. educational institutions that fall outside traditional re......

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October 11, 2025

Visa Students: Non-Citizens Are Guests and Should Not Have the Same Rights as Americans

Teresa R. Manning

A federal judge’s ruling that a deported foreign student has First Amendment rights blurs the line between citizen and non-citizen, raising profound questions about U.S. sovereignty.

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September 2, 2025

Rolling Out the Welcome Mat

Kali Jerrard

The Trump administration should proceed with caution instead of welcoming malign foreign influences with open arms onto American college and university campuses

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May 6, 2025

New Trump Executive Actions: Seeking Transparency and Tearing Down Walls

Kali Jerrard

The deluge of Executive Orders out of the Trump White House provide the first steps in latest reform efforts of academia.

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April 26, 2025

Trump Issues Executive Orders on Accreditation and Foreign Influence

Teresa R. Manning

President Trump has issued a flurry of education-related Executive Orders this month. Two are on issues of concern for the National Association of Scholars: accreditation reform and foreign influence......

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February 19, 2025

California is in Cahoots with China on Climate Policy

Ian Oxnevad

Higher education partnerships between America and China are hurting America's economy while benefitting Beijing.

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