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Transparency for Confucius Institutes Act
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Transparency for Confucius Institutes Act This bill requires an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student-aid programs to enter into a program participation agreement if a Confucius Institute operates on the IHE's campus. (Confucius Institutes are Chinese government-funded centers for language education and cultural programming at IHEs.) The agreement must be entered into with the Office of Chinese Language Council International (i.e., Confucius Institute Headquarters, Hanban) and be made publicly available online. Among other requirements, the Confucius Institute must be physically located apart from the IHE's own Chinese language, history, and cultural programs.
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2021 · first_quarter · Education
As is FIRE's custom with every new President, FIRE sent President Biden a letter on his inauguration day highlighting FIRE's priorities. The letter included discussion of campus free speech and due process and discussed those issues in the context of Title IX. Staff for the majority and minority of the House Education and Labor Committee as well as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee were copied on the letter. FIRE also wrote to Senate offices with questions we wanted posed to Miguel Cardona during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. FIRE also internally analyzed two bills addressing Confucius Institutes on college campus in anticipation of the possibility of doing congressional advocacy. Those bills were S. 590 and S. 822. Finally, early in second quarter, FIRE had a meeting with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to discuss campus free speech. Preparation for the meeting took place during the covered time period.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Government targets: Education, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, President of the U.S., SENATE
2021 · first_quarter · Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
As is FIRE's custom with every new President, FIRE sent President Biden a letter on his inauguration day highlighting FIRE's priorities. The letter included discussion of campus free speech and due process and discussed those issues in the context of Title IX. Staff for the majority and minority of the House Education and Labor Committee as well as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee were copied on the letter. FIRE also wrote to Senate offices with questions we wanted posed to Miguel Cardona during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. FIRE also internally analyzed two bills addressing Confucius Institutes on college campus in anticipation of the possibility of doing congressional advocacy. Those bills were S. 590 and S. 822. Finally, early in second quarter, FIRE had a meeting with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to discuss campus free speech. Preparation for the meeting took place during the covered time period.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, President of the U.S., SENATE
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