Over the last decade, institutions of higher education across the United States of America received
billions of dollars from foreign donors, much of which went unreported, to the U.S. Department of
Education, as required. The U.S. Department of Education required that those institutions file
reports detailing how much such funding they received and from where in accordance with
regulations for foreign gift and contract reporting. Using that information available in public reports,
in the present paper, we report 4 studies examining the extent of different avenues of foreign
funding and its statistical relationship to campus political climate and events. Because much of this
foreign funding was provided by authoritarian regimes, we examined the levels and sources of such
funding and the extent to which this funding correlated with a deterioration of liberal democratic
norms around free speech and academic freedom, as well as antisemitism on campus. Because
campus antisemitism is not well characterized in peer-reviewed literature, we sought to assess its
concurrent validity among other national assessments of antisemitism (reported by the FBI, ADL). All
r’s were high (~.50) indicating strong spatial correspondence between the three assessments.
