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Hanban provides a $900,000 USD grant to the University of Maryland to renovate the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland as a Model Confucius Institute

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$941,579
Commitment Year•2015Country of Activity•United StatesDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•United StatesSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

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Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Dec 28, 2015

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Hanban, Confucius Institute Headquarters

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • University of Maryland, College Park

Loan description

Hanban provides a $900,000 USD grant to the University of Maryland to renovate the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland as a Model Confucius Institute

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On December 28, 2015, the Office of Chinese Language Council (Hanban) entered into a $900,000.00 USD grant agreement with University of Maryland to finance the transformation of the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland as a Model Confucius Institute. Specifically, the grant would have supported the 100% of the renovation budget to transform the Humphrey House at 8701 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland into the dedicated site of the Model Confucius Institute. The agreement was to last 10 years, with Hanban anticipating in the agreement that the Confucius Institute of Maryland would continue to use the dedicated site. The agreement included a formula to calculate penalties for early withdrawal ($7,500 USD per month left unfulfilled in the 10-year commitment). Record ID#44049 captures the grant for the original establishment of the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland. However, in 2020, the University of Maryland closed the Confucius Institute due to the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 restricting the university's ability to both host a Confucius Institute and receive certain federal funding. As a result, Hanban requested that the University of Maryland return all of its grant financing used for the Model Confucius Institute; the University of Maryland complied with the request and returned all the funding.