This is a terrifying new trend: The reactionary, despotic Koch Brothers donated $1.5 million to Florida University, and now want to appoint far-right-wing economics faculty. University of Florida is a public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university. That means it is funded by our taxdollars. This legal bribery, however, is essentially a slow-moving privatization of the public university, the transforming of public universities into propaganda institutions in which the filthy rich can pay to teach students far-right neoliberal pseudo-economics—so that they can eventually enter the professional world and workforce obedient to Almighty Free Market™ fundamentalist dogma. To the Koch Brothers, this is not a donation, but rather an investment. #AcademiaUnderAttack theguardian/world/2014/sep/12/koch-brothers-sought-say-academic-hiring-university-donation?CMP=twt_gu
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:05:22 +0000
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