More on the Koch 'Purchase of Faculty Hiring Rights' at Florida State • TaxProf Blog

Following up on last week’s post, $1.5 Million Gift to Florida State Gives Charles Koch Control of Faculty Hiring:

Letter from Florida State President Eric J. Barron
Bloomberg, Florida State Defends Grant-for-Hire Agreement With Koch
Future of Capitalism, Koch and Florida State University
Leiter Reports, Florida State University to be Renamed “Koch Brothers’ Institute for Advanced Plutocracy Studies”
New York Times, Buying Influence at Universities, by Catherine Rampell
New York Times, Sex, the Koch brothers and Academic Freedom, by Stanley Fish
NPR, Colleges Receive Gifts, But Are Strings Attached?
St. Petersburg Times (editorial), FSU: For Sale University
St. Petersburg Times, Internal FSU E-mails Show Academic Officers Were Concerned With Koch’s Control Over Financial Gift
Tallahassee Democrat, FSU President: Faculty, Not Koch, Made Decisions
Washington Post, Did FSU Let Billionaire Buy Professorships?
Weekly Standard, Kochs Get Slammed for Donating Money to Education

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