By: Kenneth L. Marcus Published in the Wall Street Journal on January 28, 2026 The Education Department’s recent launch of a portal for universities’ foreign-funding disclosures was even timelier than officials likely realized. Newly disclosed evidence, unsealed earlier this month in federal court, demonstrates that foreign funders may be exerting the kind of outsize, hidden and nefarious influence on university programs that critics have long feared. The details demand congressional action to protect Americans’ rights. On Jan. 6, a federal district court in Pennsylvania unsealed a court order in Yael Canaan’s suit against Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Canaan alleges that the university harbors a culture of antisemitism and discrimination—in part due to the influence of more than $1 billion from Qatar and its affiliates. Carnegie Mellon denies Ms. Canaan’s allegations, including that it is influenced by Qatar, which hosts its Doha campus. Read the full op-ed at the Wall Street Journal