UND receives 30-day extension to respond to federal inquiry on foreign funding disclosures

GRAND FORKS — The University of North Dakota has been granted a 30-day extension to respond to an inquiry by the Department of Education for documents going back nearly a decade. Meloney Linder Mecklenburg, UND's vice president of marketing and communications, said UND has given the DOE an initial submission, which was submitted earlier this month, and will be sending in another in the middle of November. It ll be our final response, she said. We re doing it in two batches. The submissions are in response to an investigation by the DOE regarding alleged inadequate foreign funding disclosures. The DOE said in a news release in September that the investigation regards alleged failure to accurately disclose foreign investments, specifically coming from companies associated with China. Under the 1965 Higher Education Act, American universities are required to report any foreign gifts valued over $250,000 The DOE alleges that UND failed to file any foreign funding disclos