Are Outside Donors Dangerous to Academe?

George Leef

That is the question Scott Walter addresses in today’s Pope Center Clarion Call. He argues that the claimed threat to “academic freedom” if outsiders get to have any influence over the curriculum and the faculty is imaginary, and gives some interesting cases to support his point.

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