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In 2011, the public found out that the Florida State University Economics Department had signed a deal in 2008 with the Charles Koch Foundation, which would supply the department with $1.5 million over several years in exchange for control over hiring decisions and curriculum development. After public and faculty outcry over undue donor influence, the department renegotiated the deal, signing a new one in 2013. The foundation of billionaire fossil-fuel industrialist Charles Koch, a controversial Republican mega-donor, continues to fund various programs at FSU.
A new report from the FSU Progress Coalition and UnKoch My Campus, a band of activists who have researched and opposed Koch’s higher education donations for several years, analyzes new documents detailing the Charles Koch Foundation’s (CKF) prolonged grasp on the Economics Department. In addition to influencing hiring decisions within the programs it funded, CKF took part in designing required classes for economics majors, could cut off graduate fellowships based on proposed dissertation topics, and steered the creation of a new certificate program within the department.
"Despite all we've seen in past years, the depths of Koch's control revealed by this investigation has left us dumbfounded,” Ralph Wilson, an UnKoch member and FSU alumnus who worked on this report, told AlterNet.
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