Here is another opinion piece from a member of the Progress Coalition at Florida State University, a group with a diverse membership that has been protesting the increasing influence of the Koch Foundation within the university.
A somewhat shorter version of this op-ed has appeared in the Tallahassee Democrat [http://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2015/01/10/lakey-koch-funded-positions-raise-serious-concerns/21575141/].
The author of the piece is writing about issues related to both academic freedom and shared governance, though at least in part because the piece was written to a general audience, she describes all of the issues as relating to academic freedom.
The title of this post comes from the next-to-last paragraph, which makes a very insightful point that has not been expressed in anything else that I have read on this topic.
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FSU, Charles Koch Foundation and Academic Freedom: Tragedies of Our Past and Fears for Our Future
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