{"id":6315,"date":"2012-02-06T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=6315"},"modified":"2016-04-27T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:42:16","slug":"corporations-shouldnt-affect-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/corporations-shouldnt-affect-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporations Shouldn&#8217;t Affect Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should billionaires influence our education? I think not.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, two billionaires, The Koch brothers, owners of Koch Industries, Inc.\u2014the second largest privately owned company in the United States\u2014have signed agreements with various universities around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Miami Dade College has been spared. But other schools aren\u2019t as lucky.<\/p>\n<p>The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation has pledged $1.5 million to Florida State University, but not as a regular endowment. Instead of donors having little input, they (donors) will decide who is hired based on prospective candidates\u2019 adherence to the donor\u2019s self-serving, wealth-worshiping ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The Charles G. Koch Foundation is now taking over universities and tampering with their faculty and staff. To me it sounds like a corrupt agreement, where the universities are selling out for funding. I understand that times are tough, but this is frightening.<\/p>\n<p>Sooner or later we all might be moving into a college dictatorship. When transferring, beware. Instead of going to FSU, it might\u00a0 be Koch University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should billionaires influence our education? I think not. 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