{"id":23652,"date":"2020-09-22T14:38:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23652"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:38:30","slug":"college-board-influence-china-report-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/09\/22\/college-board-influence-china-report-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The College Board\u2019s Unseemly Alliance with China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2016, an investigative series<\/a> published by Reuters exposed how the systemic incompetence and individual greed were contributing to the devaluing of higher education. But even the tale of two Americans selling access to college admissions officers the Chinese government<\/a> pales in comparison to allegations that the primary overseer of the SAT and other college entrance exams has been corrupted by the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn exchange for generous Chinese government funding, the College Board has given China strategic access to American K-12 education,\u201d states a new\u00a0report\u00a0<\/a>from the National Association of Scholars (NAS). Thanks to the willing complicity of the College Board, the Chinese government was able to infiltrate the American education system by use the partnership to establish Confucius Institutes across the country and to ensure that the teachers leading those programs were approved by Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visiting Chinese teachers are placed in local K-12\nschools and also encouraged to use textbooks written by an arm of the Chinese\ngovernment known as the \u201cOverseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. The\nreport says that since 2007, the College Board has \u201cworked with the Hanban to\nbring more than 1,650 Chinese teachers\u201d to teach students in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2003, the report states, \u201cthe College Board has\nsponsored Confucius Institutes at K-12 schools, served as a recruiter for\nChinese government programs, and helped the Chinese Communist Party design and\ngain control over American teacher training programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what is wrong with this cultural exchange of educators\nor the College Board being involved with fostering the spread of Confucius\nInstitutes? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, there is the glaringly\nobvious clue since the institutes are governed, funded and\nstaffed by Haiban, an agency under China\u2019s education ministry. Second, the\nwidespread and very public concerns about the Institutes\u2019 ties to the Chinese\ngovernment should raise questions as to why the government has not acted sooner\nto crack down on them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, a 2012 InsideHigherEd article<\/a> addresses the fact that critics have \u201cquestioned why colleges would provide their imprimatur to institutes that have been described by Li Changchun, China\u2019s propaganda chief, as \u2018an important part of China\u2019s overseas propaganda setup.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Wall Street Journal\u2019s Hong Kong-based reporter David Feith wrote<\/a> in 2014, College Board CEO David Coleman said that year that \u201cHanban is just like the sun. It lights the path to develop Chinese teaching in the U.S.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, their \u201cwebsite doesn’t mention that Confucius\nInstitutes are Chinese government programs,\u201d nor does it disclose concerns that\nHanban \u201cmay bully teachers or censor lessons within American classrooms,\u201d he\nreported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the State Department, there are currently 75 Confucius Institutes operating in the United States, 65 of which are active on U.S. university campuses, with the rest functioning as standalone organizations. In what was an important move both strategically and symbolically, last month the State Department was announced<\/a> the U.S. headquarters of the Confucius Institutes would be now designated as a \u201cforeign mission.\u201d A senior Chinese official in 2009 classified the Institutes as \u201can important part of China\u2019s overseas propaganda setup.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The College Board may have no second thoughts about its relationships, but others are. Some schools are cutting the programs<\/a> for various reasons, including security concerns. Others, like the University of Missouri, have doing so because of changes to federal guidance<\/a>, specifically a rule requiring a certified Mandarin Chinese teacher being in each of the classrooms for instruction. Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is closing its program<\/a> citing budgetary reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Institutes grew across America, Congress and the\ncurrent and past administration have done little to nothing to combat the\ninfiltration by the Chinese. Thankfully, that has changed in the last year as\nmembers of Congress have recognized the obvious threat and the Trump\nadministration, has begun to restrict the issuance of visas to Chinese\nstudents, academics and researchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think everyone\u2019s coming to see the risk associated with them,\u201d Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said\u00a0earlier this year<\/a>. Meanwhile, the Justice Department continues to ramp up<\/a> investigations into and prosecutions of visa fraud and abuse perpetrated by the Chinese academics who typically hide their connections to the Chinese government to secure prime spots on American campuses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Congress is likely to remain unable to combat Chinese influence through passage of new laws, it is incumbent on the Trump administration to tighten visa restrictions, increase scrutiny through enhanced screening and use the bully pulpit to ensure the American people know who its enemies are \u2013 both inside and outside of our borders. \u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2016, an investigative series published by Reuters exposed how the systemic incompetence and individual greed were contributing to the devaluing of higher education. But even the tale of two Americans selling access to college admissions officers the Chinese government pales in comparison to allegations that the primary overseer of the SAT and other college<\/p>\n

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