Koch and Arizona State University (ASU)
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Arizona State University (ASU) is the largest public university in the U.S. by enrollment, at 83,301 students in the Fall of 2014.[1][2]. ASU is located on five distinct campuses across the metropolitan Phoenix area.[3]
ASU recently accepted two multi-million dollar grant pledges from the Charles Koch Foundation to establish two new research centers. [4][5] Public scrutiny over the new operations escalated in 2016 when Arizona’s legislature specifically earmarked $5 million for the two newly established centers at ASU, and a similar Koch-funded center at the University of Arizona (UA) in the state’s budget plan.[6] The use of taxpayer funds for Koch-affiliated campus centers was opposed by professors, students and legislators concerned ideological ties to big businesses and partisan political figures.
In May, 2017, the Arizona legislature and governor approved a state budget that earmarked $2 million for the "freedom schools" at ASU and UA. Out of $15 million in total taxpayer funding to state universities, ASU received $7.6 million, $1 million of which was for the Koch-funded campus center.[7]
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Koch money to ASU
According to data compiled by Greenpeace USA, using Koch Family Foundations IRS tax filings:[8]
2014: $230,700
- $230,700 paid
- $831,000 unpaid pledge approved for future payments
- $1,129,000 unpaid pledge for the ASU Center for Political Thought and Leadership [9]
- $3,500,000 unpaid pledge for the ASU Center for the Study of Economic Liberty [10]
2015: $942,227
- $917,227 paid
- $25,000 paid for "ASU Foundation For A New American University"
Sources Cited
- ↑ Arizona State University, About, accessed November, 2016
- ↑ Arizona State University, Quick Facts PDF, Fall 2014
- ↑ Arizona State University, ASU Campuses and Locations, accessed November, 2016
- ↑ Sharon Keeler, New ASU center to engage community in politics, leadership, ASU Now, July 25, 2014
- ↑ Arizona Republic, ASU creates economic-liberty center with $5 million in gifts, Nov. 28, 2014
- ↑ Alex Kotch, The Koch Brothers Are Using This State as Their Right-Wing Laboratory, AlterNet, May 23, 2016.
- ↑ Howard Fischer, Ducey signs $9.8 billion state budget, Arizona Daily Star, via Capital Media Services, May 12, 2017
- ↑ Charles Koch University Funding Database, PolluterWatch, accessed May, 2017.
- ↑ Michael Hiltzik, When universities sell their souls, why do they have to sell so cheaply?, Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2014
- ↑ Director Named For ASU’s Center For Political Thought And Leadership, Arizona Daily Independent, July 26, 2017
Additional References
Academic Freedom References
- 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), endorsed January 1, 1916, accessed August 7, 2016
- Protecting Academic Freedom, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), accessed August 7, 2016
- Fritz Machlup, On Some Misconceptions concerning Academic Freedom, JSTOR, originally published in the Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 1955), pp. 753-784
- AAC&U Board of Directors, Academic Freedom and Educational Responsibility, Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), January 6, 2006
- Academic Freedom, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), accessed August 7, 2016.
- ACRL Board of Directors, ACRL Statement on Academic Freedom, Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), June 2015
- Academic Freedom, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), accessed August 7, 2016
- Constantine Sandis, Free Speech Within Reason, Times Higher Education, January 21, 2010
- Liviu Andreescu, Foundations of Academic Freedom: Making New Sense of Some Aging Arguments, Studies in Philosophy and Education, 28:499, November 8, 2009, accessed August 7, 2016 via Springerlink,
- Colin Macilwain, Time to cry out for academic freedom, Column: World View, Nature, November 18, 2015
- Colleen Flaherty, Unacademic Freedom?, Inside Higher Ed, March 1, 2016
- Valerie Strauss, Does ‘academic freedom’ protect professors who promote outrageous falsehoods?, Answer Sheet blog, Washington Post, March 7, 2016
- Academic freedom, Wikipedia, accessed August 7, 2016
- Cary Nelson, Defining Academic Freedom, Inside Higher Ed, December 21, 2016
- Terence Karran, [Academic freedom: a research bibliography http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/1763/], University of Lincoln Repository, January 22, 2009
- Academic Freedom, The Free Dictionary: Legal DIctionary, Farlex, Accessed August 7, 2016
- Academic Freedom at Johns Hopkins, Office of the Provost, Johns Hopkins University, May 2014, accessed August 7, 2016
- Marc Rotenberg, Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, University of Michigan, accessed August 7, 2016
- Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Academic Freedom Is On the Decline, and Here's the Data to Prove It, Hit and Run blog, Reason Foundation, May 11, 2015
Koch and Academic Freedom
- John K. Wilson, The Koch Foundation and Academic Freedom, Academe Blog, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), January 18, 2015
- Hank Reichman, On Blacklists, Harassment, and Outside Funders: A Response to Phil Magness, Academe Blog, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), April 11, 2017
- Valerie Strauss, Charles Koch Foundation’s unique definition of ‘academic freedom’, Answer Sheet blog, Washington Post, November 7, 2014
- Gale Sigal and Steve Boyd, Koch Pledge To Eudaimonia Is Not A Gift, Old Gold & Black, Wake Forest University, April 30, 2017
- James Ford and Ulrike Wiethaus, Faculty Senate at Wake Forest Explains Opposition to Koch-Funded Institute, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 12, 2017
- Kent S. Miller & Ray Bellamy, Fine Print, Restrictive Grants, and Academic Freedom: The limits to “free” in free-market foundation donations at Florida State University, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), May/June 2011
- Michael Burke, The Whitman School’s receipt of a Charles Koch Foundation grant is raising academic freedom concerns, The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, Feb. 2, 2017
- Editorial, Koch brothers’ donation to Syracuse University is a red flag for academic freedom at the expense of two of the country’s richest men, The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, Feb. 1, 2017
- Dan Berrett, Not Just Florida State, Inside Higher Ed, June 28, 2011
- Stanley Fish, Sex, the Koch Brothers, and Academic Freedom, Opinionator Blog, New York Times, May 16, 2011
- Connor Gibson, Koch Pollution on Campus: Academic Freedom Under Assault from Charles Koch's $50 Million Campaign to Infiltrate Higher Education, Greenpeace USA, September, 2014
- Shared Governance, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), accessed August 7, 2016
- How to Make Shared Governance Work: Some Best Practices, Trusteeship Magazine, Association of Governing Boards, accessed August 7, 2016
