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http://www.chronicle.com/article/Ko...Dd0SE9KRy1CZW0yZ0xDWjBoOWtJMGpWWURfdDNCOFhrWQ
For a place that takes its name from a Greek word for happiness, the new Eudaimonia Institute at Wake Forest University certainly generates its share of tension and worry.
The unease stems not from anything the institute has yet done, but from its chief source of financial support: a $3.7-million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation, a major bankroller of university programs that promote libertarianism and faith in the free market. The foundation’s involvement has aroused enough ire in the Faculty Senate that it appears likely this month to call for an overhaul of the university’s gift-agreement policies, to require much more faculty oversight.
The Senate has already urged the university to cease and prohibit any Koch financing of its centers or institutes, warning in a resolution passed last month that the foundation seeks "to co-opt higher education for its ideological, political, and financial ends."
Rogan Kersh, the university’s provost, says he is open to discussing the Senate’s concerns but will not acquiesce to faculty demands that he disclose the contents of the Koch agreement, which remains confidential. "If there was some improper influence hinted at or present in a gift agreement, we wouldn’t sign it," he says.
The Eudaimonia Institute controversy has pitted faculty members against one another. While opponents of the Koch agreement are urging the administration to comply with last month’s resolution right away, others, who support it, are accusing those who wish to block it of censorship.
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I debated putting this on the Tunnels. I went with The Pit because it's directly MSD related.
For a place that takes its name from a Greek word for happiness, the new Eudaimonia Institute at Wake Forest University certainly generates its share of tension and worry.
The unease stems not from anything the institute has yet done, but from its chief source of financial support: a $3.7-million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation, a major bankroller of university programs that promote libertarianism and faith in the free market. The foundation’s involvement has aroused enough ire in the Faculty Senate that it appears likely this month to call for an overhaul of the university’s gift-agreement policies, to require much more faculty oversight.
The Senate has already urged the university to cease and prohibit any Koch financing of its centers or institutes, warning in a resolution passed last month that the foundation seeks "to co-opt higher education for its ideological, political, and financial ends."
Rogan Kersh, the university’s provost, says he is open to discussing the Senate’s concerns but will not acquiesce to faculty demands that he disclose the contents of the Koch agreement, which remains confidential. "If there was some improper influence hinted at or present in a gift agreement, we wouldn’t sign it," he says.
The Eudaimonia Institute controversy has pitted faculty members against one another. While opponents of the Koch agreement are urging the administration to comply with last month’s resolution right away, others, who support it, are accusing those who wish to block it of censorship.
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I debated putting this on the Tunnels. I went with The Pit because it's directly MSD related.
