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Boston College faculty warn Koch Foundation funding could compromise ‘Catholic mission’
College Fix ^ | October 30, 2019 | Greg Piper

Posted on 10/31/2019 6:14:34 AM PDT by C19fan

At a time when the humanities are struggling to draw in students and departmental budgets are at risk, you’d think a college would jump at the chance to get outside money for a new program.

But when the potential donor is the Charles Koch Foundation*, which has funded programs at colleges across the country – including a massive gift to historically black schools – all bets are off.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: charleskoch; college; davidkoch; liberaltarians; libertarians; university
BC has a "Catholic mission". That is news to me. Just a reminder this is the school that tolerated a professor who refused to have men in her classes.
1 posted on 10/31/2019 6:14:34 AM PDT by C19fan
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Isn’t this the school the idiot AOC graduated from Cum Laude?

Seems to me they have FAILED in the ‘Catholic Mission’ long, long ago, if that is the case....

Not that I like the Koch brothers...


2 posted on 10/31/2019 6:17:04 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: C19fan

But support of abortion and sodomists is fine?


3 posted on 10/31/2019 6:17:51 AM PDT by keving (We the government)
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To: HamiltonJay

Nah...that was Boston University.


4 posted on 10/31/2019 6:19:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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Catholic parents who send their children to Jesuit universities to receive a Catholic education are delusional. The agnostic Jesuits at Boston College will inevitably take the money and do whatever the Koch foundation wants done.


5 posted on 10/31/2019 6:19:58 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: C19fan

Nobody really regards BC as a Catholic institution.


6 posted on 10/31/2019 6:36:39 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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