It is good and important to see that the Wichita
State University Student newspaper, The
Sunflower is calling the School administration on the influence of the Koch
brothers, Charles and David. This makes a good follow-up to an earlier story we
did (Koch brothers helped create a “culture of
fear” at Wichita State University). – SJ Otto
From the W.S.U. The
Sunflower Student Newspaper:
Donations to
universities by the Charles Koch Foundation sometimes come with strings
attached. But university officials said a proposed Koch-funded “Institute for
the Study of Free Enterprise” in the Barton School of Business won’t jeopardize
academic freedom at Wichita State.
Talks about the institute leaked last month in The Wichita Eagle
and the university had not officially confirmed the report until last week,
when Koch influence was the first topic addressed at the Faculty Senate
meeting.
According to emails and documents provided to The Sunflower by
an anonymous source in July, Anand Desai, dean of the Barton School, had been
in contact with Brett Hinkley about creating the institute at WSU.
In a leaked document from 2014, Mother Jones identified Hinkley
as a “player” for Freedom Partners — formerly known as the Association for
American Innovation — which is a Koch-funded nonprofit organization that has
given grants worth $236 million to conservative political organizations.
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