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Trump Administration Demands Records From Penn on Foreign Ties
The Trump administration on Thursday accused the University of Pennsylvania of submitting incomplete, inaccurate financial disclosures about its foreign ties and ordered the Ivy League school to provide a raft of records.
The demand for documents included the names and contact information of university personnel who work with foreign governments, including in research collaborations and student exchange programs.
Officials suggested in a letter sent on Thursday from the Education Department to J. Larry Jameson, the president of Penn, that the college has struggled with veracity in its disclosures of foreign funding.
By law, U.S. colleges and universities are required twice a year to report foreign gifts and contracts worth $250,000 or more to the government.
In Penn’s latest filing, more than half of the disclosures were reported late, according to the department. The government also said the university had misidentified many of the foreign sources without providing additional details.
Consequently, the department said it is demanding the college produce a lengthy and detailed list of documents within 30 days. Those documents include copies of admissions agreements with foreign governments for international students, as well as records related to faculty and research collaborations from the past eight years. The government is also seeking the names and contact information for university personnel involved in the “creation, administration or management” of those agreements.
In addition, the department asked for the names and contact information of college personnel involved in exchange student visitor programs and anyone involved in international research collaborations.
A spokesman for Penn did not immediately return a request for comment.
The investigation into Penn’s foreign funding is at least the third such inquiry started by the agency in the past three weeks. On April 18, the department said it was investigating Harvard University’s foreign donations, and April 25, the department said it was probing disclosures submitted by the University of California, Berkeley. Those investigations included similar requests for documents.
Representatives for U.C. Berkeley and Harvard said they were in full compliance with the law.
The investigations are part of a widening pressure campaign that the Trump administration has launched on the nation’s elite universities, a strategy to aimed at realigning what they view as the liberal tilt of elite universities.
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Video: Blizzard Slams Northeast with Heavy Snow, Disrupting Travel
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Blizzard Slams Northeast with Heavy Snow, Disrupting Travel
Several cities across the Northeast received at least two feet of snow, bringing many places to a standstill.
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“I hope our students enjoy their snow day today and stay warm and safe throughout, but I do have some tough news to share. School will be in-person tomorrow. You can still pelt me with snowballs when you see me.” “It’s probably about the worst I’ve seen. I mean, I was here with the last big storm. I think that was where in 2016 or something. But it wasn’t as bad as this. And the problem is, when the plows come past, they just throw up all the snow. And there’s going to be a big bank here later. So I’m digging it out now to get rid of some of this.” “I do ski patrol on the Lower East Side. I like to check the parks, and sometimes I find people fall in the snow and they can’t get up, like a elderly gentleman went out in his pajamas to get a quart of milk. So, things like that.” “And if you can cook at home, please do so instead of ordering food to be delivered given the conditions. Make an enormous pot of soup and bring some to your neighbors upstairs.”
By Meg Felling
February 23, 2026
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