Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, opened a debate on academic freedom and other issues at a hearing before the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee. Ian Wilhelm reports on the hearing for the Chronical on Higher Education. "[Smith] questioned whether colleges had sold out their values to receive financial support from China to build academic facilities in China and to establish Confucius Institutes, which are Chinese-language and -cultural centers that operate on American campuses," writes Wilhelm.