The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether Harvard University’s China-linked donations influenced financial aid and admissions decisions. Federal officials are examining whether scholarships funded by foreign donors violated Title VI by disadvantaging American students. The probe is the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s growing clash with Harvard over foreign funding, discrimination concerns, and university policies.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Harvard University is allowing Chinese donors to create scholarships that exclude American students.

The DoJ said it had opened a review to determine whether Harvard’s China-based financial aid programmes exclude American-citizen students.