Brooklyn College Defends Academic Freedom By Saying No To Koch Millions For Its Business School

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http://www.alternet.org/education/brooklyn-college-defends-academic-freedom-saying-no-koch-millions-its-business-school




Brooklyn College of the City University of New York has a new academic credential.

Unlike an estimated 150 colleges and universities that have taken $56 million from the billionaire libertarian industrialist Koch brothers since the 1980s—and then integrated their extreme right-wing agenda into business classes while censoring other views—the New York City college keeps rejecting Koch cash, an aggrieved libertarian business school professor complained in a detailed report by InsideHigherEd.com.

The libertarian professor, Mitchell Langbert, apparently approached the Charles C. Koch Foundation twice—in June 2013 and again this January—seeking multi-million dollar grants to expand Brooklyn College’s business faculty. Langbert’s effort, however, were apparently rejected by his supervisors, who did not want to pursue the grants.

“The professor said that in the summer of 2013, he was in unofficial but promising talks with representatives from the Koch Foundation about a $4.3 million grant to advance market-based economics at Brooklyn College,” Inside Higher Ed reported. “The grant would have funded the hiring of multiple faculty members and graduate students, and established an honors program and an institute on markets at the college.”

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I wish *I* could be a "libertarian professor".

>>>The libertarian professor, Mitchell Langbert, apparently approached the Charles C. Koch Foundation twice—in June 2013 and again this January—seeking multi-million dollar grants to expand Brooklyn College’s business faculty. Langbert’s effort, however, were apparently rejected by his supervisors, who did not want to pursue the grants. >>>>


Life would be SO much easier.

[Orangepeel]

8. "Libertarian professor" at a PUBLIC university

[Tetris_Iguana]

13. Good catch

[MisterP]

14. FUNNY how these RW stalking-horses never get cited academically except by one another

looking through the stuff for, say, Iran-Contra, the closest you'll get to a published pro-Contra work is "With the Contras": other than that there ARE NO REAGANAUT ACADEMIC WORKS--there's one by a fanboy, one Moonie movie, and a few sloppy collections by the Weyrich-Coors empire

but as well all know, New Right stuff isn't meant to inform or perhaps even convince, but to shift the terms of debate and delay or reverse action

[JustAnotherGen]

2. This is why

We have to give the Koch brothers the side eye every time they drop money at a public institution or charity. It's never benign. There is always angle with the two bad ones.

As for the whining Libertarian professor?

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Kicking. nt

[sorechasm]

4. Honors Program funded by the Koch brothers?

Is Dick Cheney going to lecture on sensitivity training?

[mnhtnbb]

5. Koch Bros. money is behind the tea party guy, Brat, who beat Cantor

in Virginia for the Republican nomination for the House seat.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2014/06/dark-money-machine-beat-eric-cantor

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/13/score_one_for_dark_money_meet_the_ayn_rand_loving_billionaires_behind_david_brat_partner/

[classykaren]

6. Yea just like they did down here in Florida. Then controlled the hiring of teachers.

Big stink made of this.

[bklyncowgirl]

7. Good for my alma mater!

[hedgehog]

9. Wow!

[tom_kelly]

10. Not everyone can be talked into sucking koch! oops... n/t

[RoccoR5955]

11. Good on my alma mater.

Bad on the business professor.

BTW- I was a geology major, and took NO business courses.

[aikoaiko]

12. The Chinese gov does the same thing with their Confucius Institutes.

My university gently declined because of the control over faculty and content.

Deep pockets often have agendas.

[Jake2413]

15. A college with integrity