1. Institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good,
[which] depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition.
Academic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both
teaching and research.
KOCHSHAVE LEVERAGED OVER
KOCHCAMPUS
-American Association of University Professors
RECLAIMINGOUR EDUCATION SYSTEMS
POLICY
2005
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIC
THE CONNECTION TO
SUSTAINABILITY
MILLION
UNIVERSITIES
390
$50
to over
granting them undue influence in hiring
procedures and research direction, which
influences policy and curricula.
SOCIAL
Rather than being taught to
critically analyze existing thought
paradigms, students are
indoctrinated into them.
POLITICAL
Under the guise of
academicians, Koch
economists are able to
act as unofficial
lobbyists for their
donors.
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
ECON
False academic credentials bolster
the Koch’s mission to block
effective environmental
regulation and ease limits on
industrial pollution.
390 SCHOOLS
7 UNIVERSITIES
36 UNIVERSITIES
111 UNIVERSITIES
245 UNIVERSITIES
16 UNIVERSITIES
74 UNIVERSITIES
191 UNIVERSITIES
254 UNIVERSITIES
10UNDER THE
INFLUENCE
TO DATE WHEN INCLUDING
MORE RECENT FINDINGS
Kochs exercise most of their influence in ecnomoics departments, inserting
radical free-market ideology into curricula, reinforcing systemic wealth inequality.
ACCOUNTABILITY
WE DEMAND
TRANSPARENCY
WE DEMAND
YEARS
$
$
$
$
$
Compromising Academic Freedom
$
$
$
$
$
ADEQUATE PUBLIC
FUNDING FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION
WE DEMAND