Protecting the independence and integrity of academic research
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14 Jun 2021
A mega-donor sought to prevent the University of North Carolina from hiring journalist @nhannahjones. Mike Scutari takes a closer look at how funders can exert influence on university officials increasingly reliant on philanthropy. bit.ly/2SqzRjm
@knightfdn @RWJF
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30 May 2021
Surprise, surprise...
30 May 2021
EXCLUSIVE: In emails, the UNC journalism school’s largest donor warned university leaders against hiring Nikole Hannah-Jones. My reporting for @TheAssemblyNC.
theassemblync.com/long-form/…
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18 Sep 2020
Congratulations @ass_deans! You’ve now earned a prime spot in the Academic Capture Warning System. Welcome.
18 Sep 2020
I am happy to announce we received a large grant from the Koch Foundation. Our political science department is now the Department of Patriotic Studies and our economics department is now the Department of Free Enterprise!
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17 Sep 2020
Donor influence in hiring at UofT. Kudos to the faculty advisory board for resigning in response.
17 Sep 2020
In news that by now you have no right to be shocked by, the incoming director of a school at UofT has been unhired because of her scholarship and advocacy on Palestinians.
The entire faculty advisory board has resigned in response.
thestar.com/news/gta/2020/09…
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29 Aug 2020
“...one of the biggest conflicts of interest imaginable...”
Yikes, @UMich, yikes. michigandaily.com/section/op…
26 Jul 2020
ACWS retweeted
15 Jun 2020
If these numbers are correct, it is worse than I expected
medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-…
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18 Apr 2020
A new op-ed by two of us (along with Jasmine Banks of UnKoch My Campus) discusses how colleges/universities are compromising their ethical/academic integrity by accepting tainted donations from wealthy elites: promarket.org/tainted-philan…
ACWS retweeted
3 Feb 2020
HB 1529 introduced by Delegate Bulova just passed the House Subcommittee on Higher Education! This bill will require public universities to retain a copy of a donor agreement and that the donor agreement is subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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ACWS retweeted
22 Dec 2019
And yet Mason's law school accepts a $20 million secret donation from a climate denialist, and then pressures Mason's own climate scientists on the donor's behalf. @GeorgeMasonU @CabreraAngel @AnneHolton
16 Nov 2019
By the 2030s, Earth will have warmed ~2°C in the space of just 250 years.
It would appear that there is no record of ecosystems or species in the geologic past surviving this rate of change.
news.stanford.edu/news/2013/…
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ACWS retweeted
22 Dec 2019
Faculty of Mason, we are livid about this news, and we are working on a response. We will also redouble our effort to open the Prez search to community participation. Mason's admin has proved repeatedly that they make immoral, indefensible decisions under cover of darkness.
Breaking: 800 pages of VA FOIA docs reveal Barre Seid among George Mason Univ’s secret donors, even meddling with GMU affairs by attacking #climate scientists at GMU.
#highered #highereducation
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ACWS retweeted
20 Dec 2019
“When the power of that money combines with donor anonymity, it creates a toxic brew that can poison an organization’s values and culture.” At SLU, this is happening even without anonymity...
nonprofitquarterly.org/high-…
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ACWS retweeted
19 Dec 2019
To Court a Secretive Donor, Law Deans at George Mason Blasted Climate Scientists and Their Own Accreditor buff.ly/2sMCAGh
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ACWS retweeted
19 Dec 2019
Mizzou accepted a donation that required it to hire professors who supported the views of a particular individual (in this case, Ludwig von Mises). Academe must do better--say no thanks to financial "gifts" with such strings attached: stltoday.com/news/local/colu…
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ACWS retweeted
17 Dec 2019
Faculty who are complicit in allowing our colleges/universities to become "pawns" of fossil fuel companies' greenwashing efforts are failing in their duty to protect the independence/integrity of academic research: truthout.org/articles/studen…
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ACWS retweeted
11 Dec 2019
The International Studies program at @BostonCollege is REJECTING Koch money!! buff.ly/2PaLuWR
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10 Dec 2019
Beware of the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research at Saint Louis University, which is marred by flagrant violations of academic norms and isn't a legitimate academic research center: savingslu.org/faculty-manual…