In 1996, Richard Fink, an executive at #Koch Industries and a top advisor to Charles Koch, outlined a three-tiered strategy for getting the #fossilfuels industrialist's free-market ideas out into the world: through academia, think tanks, and activists’ organizations. 
How Charles #Koch Is Buying Credibility With Academic Investments sgq.io/SVs3Bnu The 1st tier of this “structure of social change” strategy is the “investment in intellectual raw materials”, that academia would develop. #unKoch #HigherEducation
This level of #Koch funding in academia and think tanks has broad implications for policy implementation, as state governments routinely rely on the state university systems to provide independent analyses of issues before the legislature and agencies. #unKoch #highered
New institutes to prepare next generation of leaders, conduct research bsu.edu/news/press-cen… Ball State received $5 million from the Menard family and $1.55 million from the Charles Koch Foundation. Menard is also a contributor to the #Koch Foundation #unKoch #HigherEducation
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