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University Presidents Prepared for an Academic Discourse, Not a Sound-Bite Frenzy

BY ALAN SINGER An earlier version of this blog post appeared on the Daily Kos. We are reposting it here with permission of the author. Many of us have seen the congressional sound bites. MAGA superstar Elise Stefanik made mincemeat out of Ivy League college presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of the University of…

MIT, David Koch, and Jeffrey Epstein

BY HANK REICHMAN In The Future of Academic Freedom I devote a chapter to the baleful influence on academic freedom of colleges’ and universities’ increasing reliance on external donors, many of whom act on political motivations potentially detrimental to institutional values. Some of the possible pitfalls may be seen in how the Massachusetts Institute of…

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University Presidents Prepared for an Academic Discourse, Not a Sound-Bite Frenzy

MIT, David Koch, and Jeffrey Epstein