Universities are faced with a survey on links with the PCC scholarship program

First on Fox: The Committee selected in China is launching an investigation into universities that combine with a Chinese scholarship fund, alarming on what legislators describe as a secret pipeline for Beijing access to sensitive American research and technology.

This week, the Committee sends official surveillance letters to a group of major universities, including Dartmouth, Notre Dame, the University of the Temple, the University of Tennessee and several campuses in the University of California system, demanding responses on their involvement in the PRC porcelain scholarship board (CSC).

The letters, obtained for the first time by Fox News Digital, mark the last climbing of the efforts of the Congress to face what the Committee calls “the systemic infiltration of the CCP” in the American academic world.

“Under the guise of academic exchange”, writes the committee in its letters to university presidents “, the CSC places RPC students – often in sensitive STEM fields – in American universities with direct financial support from the CSC and host institutions.”

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The Committee selected in China is launching an investigation into universities that combine with a Chinese scholarship fund, alarming on what legislators describe as a secret pipeline for Beijing access to sensitive American research and technology. (Szilard Koszticsak / Mti via AP)

Notre Dame told Fox News Digital that the university had already ended its CSC program. “We will of course respond to the investigation and we are delighted to work with the committee on this important issue.”

A familiar source with Notre Dame’s program added that the scholarship program had approximately two dozen students per year, mainly in the departments of humanity, “not in areas that would be useful for military or scientific growth of China”.

The spokesperson Jana Barnello told Fox News Digital Dartmouth “had already determined to put an end to her participation” in the CSC program, and said that “very few students” participated since he started a decade ago.

“We are examining the letter and we are impatient to respond to the limited committee,” she said. “Dartmouth remains determined to bring the best and most brilliant students around the world to our campus in accordance with American law.”

And the spokesman for the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Kerry Gardner, said: “We have launched an official examination of the restricted committee request and we are delighted to develop a quick and in-depth response to comply with the deadline for the committee.”

As part of the joint program, CSC offers sponsored students a living allowance and covers 50% of tuition fees for the first four years of their doctorate. studies. As a rule, the university covers the remaining half of tuition fees and living allocation.

The Committee claims that the CSC program is not the academic bridge it claims to be, but a mechanism controlled by the CCP for technology transfer, ideological conditioning and the monitoring of Chinese nationals studying abroad.

The program obliges students to return to China for at least two years after obtaining the diploma and to submit quarterly reports during their stay in the United States on their research, their publications and their ideological progress to Chinese embassies or consulates.

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This week, the Committee sends official surveillance letters to a group of major universities, including Dartmouth, Notre Dame, the University of the Temple and several campuses within the University of California system, demanding responses on their involvement in the Bourses in China de PRC. (Bing Guan / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Letters suggest that American federal research subsidies can indirectly subsidize students affiliated with the CCP and their research.

Dartmouth, for example, has won almost half of its research funding, 169 million dollars, of the federal government. The Dartmouth joint scholarship program with the CSC sponsors up to 15 Chinese students each year.

The Committee claims that the program can also conflict with the presidential proclamation 10043, which restricts the visas of RPC nationals affiliated to the universities of Chinese military merger.

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The letters asked each university that all contracts and correspondence with the CSC, the lists of institutional affiliations of students before and after, the research files funded by the federal government involving CSC students and proofs of any communication with the departments of state security and internal security on potential visa problems.

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The letter also raises questions about the students sponsored by the CSC who may have remained in American universities for post -doctoral research – perhaps funded by federal subsidies – and calls on the college to explain how such a program aligns about American national interests.