This group keeps fighting for universities to divest from China

An advocacy group is recruiting students from both major political parties to push for university divestment from Chinese government-controlled entities. Athenai Institute co-founder Caleb Max told The College Fix the organization is working to build on the victories it has achieved since he and two other George Mason University students founded it in 2020.

“Athenai started as a sort of blending together of Republicans and Democrats to advocate for schools to remove their Confucius Institutes because of their funding by China, which has human rights violations,” he said.

The institute is a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to countering the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on college campuses through student-led activism. Its mission is to educate people about the dangers posed by CCP influence on campuses and urge universities to “disentangle themselves from the CCP.”