A petition urging BC not to accept funding from the Koch Foundation that was signed by over 1,000 people was sent to administrators on Dec. 13.
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IS Program Rejects Koch Funding
The international studies program will not participate in a proposed security studies program that would be funded by the Charles Koch Foundation.
Letters To The Editor, Opinions
In Response to: “To Compete with Top-Ranking Institutions, BC Should Take Koch Foundation’s Funding”
We live in an era of outsize influence of the ultra-wealthy in our institutions. Lobbying has never been so profitable and so widely used. A single large donation to a politician’s campaign often is enough to make said politician make a 180-degree turn on a policy issue. Our regulatory agencies have been captured and regularly…
Opinions, Editorials
To Compete with Top-Ranking Institutions, BC Should Take Koch Foundation’s Funding
The Boston College political science department is in ongoing deliberations about potentially establishing a new program that would focus on U.S. foreign policy research. The proposed program is one of many that have been supported by the Charles Koch Foundation at universities in the last few years, most recently at the University of Notre Dame,…
