The alums of other schools need to get involved in this way. Schools listen to alums because they’re potential donors.
The College Fix reports:
Independent MIT alumni group receives $500,000 donation to promote free speechA group of free speech advocates associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received a financial boost to help them grow over the next two years.The Stanton Foundation announced a $500,000 donation to the MIT Free Speech Alliance, which has approximately 800 members, made up of alumni, faculty, students and other allies.The donation is intended to further the alliance’s promotion of free speech, academic freedom and intellectual diversity at the university.Chuck Davis, MIT Free Speech Alliance president and university alumnus, wrote the grant for the proposal and serves as finance committee chair. He told The College Fix by phone June 2 that the funds would be used primarily to hire a full-time executive director, update their website “to make it a more effective outreach platform,” and enlist professional accounting and compliance reporting services “to ensure transparency.”“What we want to achieve is to launch the alliance, boot-strap it to be a self-sustaining organization built with an ongoing set of programs that will endure for the indefinite future,” Davis said.“We want to inform, educate, and engage the students” on “what is free speech, why is it important…but also to inform students and faculty and staff about the rights they have that universities often violate,” he said.Frank Stanton, former president of CBS, and his wife started the foundation in 1991 to promote free speech, among other causes. Stanton died in 2006.“Frank Stanton was a fierce advocate for the First Amendment’s protections of freedom of thought and expression,” the foundation stated in its news release. “The goals of the MFSA align directly with the principles and values about which Frank Stanton cared so deeply.”
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