the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide. Our universities should not be tied to it.
Our Mission
The Chinese Communist Party has taken advantage of the openness of American academic institutions to undermine academic freedom and global opposition to its human rights abuses. American universities cannot retain their independence or educate their students about the Chinese regime’s threat to liberty around the world if they continue to be tied - through endowments, Confucius Institutes, and research partnerships - to the CCP.
US Colleges Must Resist
Athenai is a nonpartisan, student-founded movement devoted to removing the influence of the Chinese Communist Party from American college campuses. We are building a student movement to divest from the CCP and any entity that aids its ongoing campaign to spread its totalitarian, genocidal political system around the world. Students are leading the fight for human rights, and we’re winning.

Athenai Is Leading the Movement
Our nonpartisan, student-led movement has educated hundreds of students about the dangers posed by the CCP. Athenai's impact to date:
- 60 Confucius Institutes closed
- 13 States with Athenai chapters
- One university committed to divest from entities tied to the genocide of Uyghurs

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