Faculty at Wake Forest Tries to Undermine Koch Funded Institute
“faculty members and student groups are now trying to “UnKoch” their campuses”
These faculty members will deny funding which could help educate students over their partisan dislike of the Koch brothers? That’s just sad.
The James G. Martin Center reports:
Wake Forest Faculty Attempt to Undermine Koch-Funded Campus Institute
The Faculty Senate at Wake Forest University made headlines last week when it demanded that the university reject a $3.69 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. Such a stance is not unusual. Many liberal faculty members and student groups are now trying to “UnKoch” their campuses.
But Wake Forest’s Faculty Senate resolution goes further. In addition to demanding that the university reject the grant, Wake Forest faculty demanded that professor James Otteson and his Eudaimonia Institute be silenced.
The Eudaimonia Institute started at Wake Forest last summer through a planning grant from the Wake Forest Office of the Provost. Eudaimonia is a Greek word commonly translated as “happiness” or “welfare”; however, “human flourishing” has been proposed as a more accurate translation. Professor James Otteson is the Institute’s executive director.
Its programs are purely academic. The Institute’s mission is to “investigate the nature of eudaimonia…and the political, economic, social, and cultural institutions that encourage and discourage it.” To fulfill that mission, the Institute supports faculty and student research and hosts conferences and events.
In September 2016, Wake Forest announced that the Koch Foundation had committed nearly $4 million in funding for the Institute over the next five years.
Hat tip to this Twitter user who points out another problem with this situation:
https://twitter.com/mungowitz/status/846744959768256512
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Yeah! Especially after the way he sold out other Jews to the Nazis in WWII and ruined the British Pound! Oh wait, that was the darling of the left, Georg Soros.
Oh well, give the money to Hillsdale College, where students appreciate the Constitution. Why waste money on these progressive, speech censoring liberal rat holes?