Athenai Institute

05/18/2021

As Columbia's secrecy shows, US universities recognize that their ties to the Chinese government are untenable. Naming and shaming the universities that maintain relationships with Confucius Institutes is key to closing those that remain. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/confucius-institutes-collapse-us-campuses

05/18/2021

We are making progress in the fight against Confucius Institutes. Today, just 49 Confucius Institutes continue to operate in the United States and more than a dozen more have announced plans to close. Student pressure has been key to this progress, and we are excited to take the fight to those that remain.

Confucius Institutes are billed by the Chinese Communist Party as benevolent language and culture programs and once numbered more than 100 on U.S. campuses across the country. But intelligence officials, members of Congress, and the Trump administration accused them of being an arm of the Chinese…

04/30/2021

Over the past year, we've helped close 34 Confucius Institutes around the country. 50 remain -- and we're working to close all of them by the end of this year to protect our universities from the influence of the Chinese Communist Party. Join our fight here:

On January 19, 2021, The US Department of State formally determined that China and the Chi… John Metz needs your support for Keep the CCP off college campuses

04/30/2021

This January, the US Department of State officially recognized that China is committing genocide against Uyghurs. So why do major US universities continue to take money from the Chinese government?

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at least one other university have research partnerships with a Chinese artificial intelligence company that has business ties with police in China's Xinjiang region, where a sweeping crackdown on Uighurs has drawn international...

04/30/2021

The fight to from the CCP's influence is bipartisan:

Two of the largest U.S. college campus political organizations are calling for the closure of all Confucius Institutes in the United States, saying the Beijing-funded outposts are part of the Chinese Communist Party's attempt to control discourse on China at American universities. The open letter st...

04/23/2021

On January 19, 2021, The US Department of State formally determined that China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are committing genocide against Uyghurs. But 50 colleges and universities around the United States continue to host Confucius Institutes, Chinese-government affiliated propaganda outlets designed to prevent students and educators from freely discussing China's human rights abuses.

The Athenai Institute believes that must change. We are a bipartisan, student-led coalition standing up for human rights and academic freedom. Since we released our Washington Appeal in May 22, 33 US Confucius Institutes have closed. Most recently, Athenai's campus activists helped close Confucius Institutes at Alabama A&M University, Tufts University, and The College of William & Mary . Now, we're working with more than a dozen state chapters around the country to close the remaining 50. We're raising funds to help our chapter leaders organize on-campus demonstrations, student government resolutions, petition drives, op-ed campaigns in student newspapers, and state legislative outreach to close the remaining Confucius Institutes in the US by year's end, starting with ten target universities:

1. Troy University (Alabama)
2. St. Cloud State University (Minnesota)
3. University of Central Arkansas
4. Houston Independent School District (Texas)
5. New Jersey City University
6. University of Akron (Ohio)
7. Cleveland State University (Ohio)
8. Xavier University of Louisiana
9. Central Connecticut State University
10. George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)

All funds raised as part of this campaign will go to supporting our student chapters' initiatives and helping our chapter expansion efforts.

Now is not the time for compromise. American educational institutions should not outsource students' educations to a genocidal regime.

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