Recent protests across US colleges and universities to “UnKoch my Campus” have drawn renewed attention to the issue of corporatization of higher education.
Currently, McGill University is the only Canadian post-secondary institution to receive money from the Charles Koch Foundation, the grant-giving arm of the American billionaire Koch brothers, who are major funders of rightwing causes.
According to an interactive
data-base published by Greenpeace, Charles and David Koch have contributed nearly $50 million to more than 250 colleges and universities across North America.
As of 2012 McGill had received $24,000 in grant money to fund a political theory fellowship with McGill professor Jacob Levy.
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