FSU Sold Us Out

In exchange for accepting $1.5 million from billionaire Charles Koch, one of the notorious right-wing Koch Brothers, Florida State University gave Koch the unprecedented right to reject some professor candidates for the school’s economics department.
 
Join me and sign this petition to FSU President Eric Barron: Protect academic freedom and cancel this deal with the Koch brothers: http://bit.ly/maEbgf
 
The Koch's move to control a part of FSU's economics department is bigger than FSU. For years, right wing billionaires like the Kochs have funded scores of front groups and think tanks to advance their radical agenda. Now they want to use the cover of a public university in an attempt to give their failed ideas more credibility with the public. They can't win the battle of ideas in a fair fight, so they're suppressing academic freedom to get their way. Florida State’s preposterous arrangement with Charles Koch opens the door to a slippery slope of pay-to-play control over our universities and should not go unchallenged.
 
Sign the petition to FSU President Eric Barron: Protect academic freedom and cancel the deal with the Koch brothers: http://bit.ly/maEbgf
 
Thanks for your help.

- Progress Florida