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FSU and Koch donation w/strings attached

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Glenda Wood said:
as I said in my post before...I would feel the same if it were Coca-Cola or George Soros...although to compare Soros to the Koch Brothers misses the point...obviously.
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Why? Because Soros is a rich billionaire liberal democrat and the Koch's are libertarian rich billionaire republicans? I guess it is all a matter of perspective. And we "tit for tat" posters must do this to point out the obvious intellectual dishonesty rampant among liberals. Sort of a "do as I say, not as I do" mentality.
 
The issue is a donor controlling the professors/staff hired at a public university. It has been repeatedly stated that this is unacceptable - regardless of who the donor is, what company it is, or what their political affiliation may be.

Wrong is wrong and deflecting the argument by whining about "group 1" versus "group 2" does not change that.
 
Barron, FSU’s president, wrote an open letter to FSU faculty, donors and alumni that detailed inaccuracies in the newspaper story. He also spoke with editors at the St. Petersburg Times, Associated Press and Chronicle of Higher Education.

“First and foremost,” Barron wrote, “Florida State University absolutely did not — and would not — sacrifice academic freedom in order to receive a donation of any kind. The Times story stated that the Koch Foundation exerted undue influence over the hiring of new professors in our economic department ... This is simply not the case.”

FSU used money donated by the Koch (rhymes with Coke) Foundation to hire two professors in the economics department. Under the shared governance model employed at FSU, faculty in that department voted to approve the new hires.

In addition, Barron noted, the faculty selected two professors who were not on a list recommended by a three-person advisory committee made up of one Koch Foundation appointee and two FSU economics faculty.

“Clearly the Times story chose to be sensational, when it is clear that FSU faculty were the decision makers at every level,” Barron wrote.

But Barron’s message may have been buried in the avalanche of viral postings of the original story, and subsequent responses.
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http://www.tallahassee.com/article/...y--not-Koch-Foundation--made-hiring-decisions

From what I've read, the people they hired were exactly who they were looking for in the school, and they were obviously happy it didn't cost the school (or taxpayers) a dime.
 
Not that I don't trust you, but please provide a (within acceptable copyright law length) quote from the story since it's behind a paywall that says that the relevant faculty governing body of FSU is happy with this decision.
 




It wasn't FSU then. My guess is that it was Florida Women's College which, as I remember, was the name before it became Florida State University.
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Florida State College for Women to be exact.

Of course, grandmama insisted all of her daughters attend a Methodist women's college, Wesleyan.

My mother had a Wesleyan roommate from Tennessee whose high school biology book had evolution scissorred out.

Mama was a Republican who believed in evolution. You could do that back in the day.
 
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