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not fooled

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Thu Jul 8, 2021, 11:52 PM
Jul 2021
Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, has overseen over $458 million in grants to over 550 universities and higher ed adjacent non-profits since 2005. Unlike other philanthropists backing higher education, Koch gives to schools with the explicit goal of creating intellectual fodder for his network of political interest groups, and recruiting and training students to integrate into that network.

Using recently released tax records, we discovered that in 2019, Koch university funding totaled $112,044,071. This is an increase of $23.9 million from 2018. It’s the second year in a row that Koch outspent its previous annual total by over $20 million. This one-year total is over a hundred million dollars more than Koch foundations spent annually on universities a decade ago, at $10.5 million in 2009.


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Amerikkka's arms-length dictator 666koch666 has been wrecking higher ed for years.

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I am glad she turned them down tulipsandroses Jul 2021 #1
This type of academic interference is far more pervasive than people realize. BComplex Jul 2021 #2
pervasive, like a uni supporting rw radio that attacks particular regent and chancellor candidates? certainot Jul 2021 #10
GOOD!! Duppers Jul 2021 #3
UNC Tar Heels, alma mater of Michael Jordan, disgracing themselves over a few bucks from a racist. Demnation Jul 2021 #4
$25 million isn't "a few bucks from a racist." It is a gold-mine of bucks from a racist. Still... Hekate Jul 2021 #5
Yeah, like that is ever going to happen Warpy Jul 2021 #8
She absolutely did the right thing. The UNC wrangling was unseemly & insulting... Hekate Jul 2021 #9
Yup she gave them the middle finger. onetexan Jul 2021 #16
She did so in a very classy way, too. First, she made them capitulate. Then she walked away... Hekate Jul 2021 #17
jordan could point out how NC uses black athletes to support 8 racist radio stations certainot Jul 2021 #11
More not fooled Jul 2021 #6
Yep, Koch. A one-man wrecker of liberal arts and sciences universities. ancianita Jul 2021 #7
and that wouldn't amt to crap if dems stopped letting 87+ unis support 260+ xlimbaugh stations certainot Jul 2021 #12
Yes MetalMama Jul 2021 #22
Very telling statement from the article,, Pas-de-Calais Jul 2021 #13
How very Trumpian of them... Wounded Bear Jul 2021 #14
The Arkansas Gazette and Democrat used to be different companies. I know. I threw both. GulfCoast66 Jul 2021 #15
Don't apologize. Your post was fascinating and well written. ms liberty Jul 2021 #18
Thanks for an interesting very personal view. erronis Jul 2021 #20
Well OldBaldy1701E Jul 2021 #19
This also comes on the heels of UNC's Silent Sam controversy tishaLA Jul 2021 #21
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