9,000 petitions later, Floridians remarkably opposed the infamous Koch brothers and their deal to dictate whether the university hires political ideologues to do their bidding or professors who will actually stand up for education.
The donation agreement in 2008 left FSU under public scrutiny after a Times investigation exposed that it gave Koch representatives power to influence the hiring process, implement a right-leaning laissez-faire economics club and a "market ethics" class with Ayn Rand as the required reading.
FSU, as they say "maintained its integrity," when 2 new staff members were recently hired without any outside influences and that the Faculty Review Committee declared the decision that future donor agreements will no longer allow external faculty evaluations.
ProgressFlorida e-mail:
Yesterday, we turned in nearly 9,000 petitions, including yours, urging Florida State to rescind its contract with the Koch Foundation. Within 24 hours of our delivery, FSU announced their faculty review committee’s decision. The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that the university now recognizes “future donor agreements should not allow external faculty evaluations.”
I don't care if you study Ayn Rand, but I do care that you understand she's a little daft.
Ayn Rand's philosophy is almost polarized; she advocated gaining knowledge through reason and not faith - which I think is true - but also that state systems and any form of collectivism didn't advocate individual freedom. In reality, though, does collectivism really stifle individual freedom?
If the collective public education system (created to promote reason) was ousted for the sake of a free market, would I have more or less choices? If I couldn't afford private school then it's more than likely I would have no school at all. Then McDonalds would collectively be more than happy to hire me.
Ayn, I didn't realize individual freedom could be so limiting.
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