Overview

• The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent formal oversight letters on July 9 to Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Temple, University of Tennessee and five University of California campuses over their ties to the China Scholarship Council.
• Notre Dame and Dartmouth have already terminated their CSC partnerships and confirmed they will comply with the inquiry while other universities are reviewing the requests and preparing responses.
• Lawmakers are seeking all contracts and correspondence with the CSC, lists of students’ institutional affiliations, records of federally funded research involving CSC participants and communications with State and Homeland Security on visa issues.
• Republicans allege the CSC program acts as a CCP-managed conduit for technology transfer that bolsters China’s military and scientific capabilities and may conflict with visa restrictions under Presidential Proclamation 10043.
• Universities acknowledge the need to tighten research security but caution against broad suspicion of Chinese scholars as more than 270,000 students from China enrolled in U.S. institutions in 2023–24.