Florida State University Failed To Correct Corrupt Koch Deal
This is truly frightening. I know these scum have their tentacles in a lot of things, what else is out there? Freedom for them, not for you!
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/florida-state-university-failed-correct
As citizens of the US many of us worry over our right to free speech. But how often do we get stressed over academic freedom? What is academic freedom anyway? I know, it sounds like convoluted University mumbo jumbo. It isn’t though. Trust me.
Academic freedom wasn’t even on my radar until FSU’s Presidential Search Advisory Committee voted to fast track John Thrasher as President of FSU. After that, academic freedom became my obsession. Why? Because, it protects the professors’ and students’ right to seek, research and publishthe truth. It guarantees us a role in the democratic governance of the university’s institutional life. Without academic freedom there is no truth. Without truth – tyranny and corruption are all but guaranteed. Why should you care?
In 2011, after discovering the highly controversial 2008 contract between the Charles Koch Foundation (CKF) and FSU’s Department of Economics, FSU’s Faculty Senate (FS) put together a committee to address concerns about the CKF agreement and its challenges to academic freedom. The concerns arose because the 2008 agreement gave undue outside influence to CKF in areas of faculty hire, faculty oversight and curriculum control; issues that are central to academic freedom. The Faculty Senate Review Report gave recommendations that appeared to be ignored and forgotten until a second agreement (signed in 2013) was uncovered. The 2013 agreement was signed in secret, and many of the FS Committee concerns were unaddressed.
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