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October 6, 2008
U. of Illinois and Conservative Group Agree to Keep Their Money Separate
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a group of conservative donors are separating their financial interests, The News-Gazette, a local newspaper, reported.
The donors founded the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund within the university’s foundation in 2006 to support teaching and research on free-market capitalism and related topics. After the fund went public last year, some professors questioned whether it had been established with enough faculty input.
Under the agreement announced today, the donors will continue their scholarly objectives while managing the fund as an independent nonprofit foundation, The News-Gazette said. It quoted the university’s chancellor, Richard H. Herman, as saying that “despite the good intentions of the donors and the university, there were structural incompatibilities between the fund’s operational mode and that of the university.”
In recent years, several universities have established centers financed by alumni and donor groups that seek to foster scholarship on topics like Western civilization and American history. Some of the groups specifically seek to counter what they see as liberal bias in academe, while others are more concerned with bolstering a traditional curriculum that they believe has been lost on their campuses. —Charles Huckabee
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The critical element in this issue is not the goal of the donors. The problem was that Illinois, presumably through the actions of Chancellor Herman attempted to establish this institute without faculty input, and without the usual faculty control over curriculum, etc. This was an end run, and it’s to the faculty’s credit that it was “stuffed” before it could get into the open.
— Jerry Weber Oct 7, 10:08 AM #
Jerry, that sounds like a “structural incompatibility” to me, and it is a good thing it was stuffed. I wonder if “academic freedom” was somewhere on the list of “structural incompatibilities.”
— BP Oct 7, 04:12 PM #
The donors probably did not like the fact that they could not wear McCain/Palin buttons on campus if they were not an independent nonprofit foundation.
— Cubs fan Oct 7, 10:24 PM #