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Stirrings of Consciousness
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Oh, how nice for UChicago, they just had to pay 13.5 million to settle a class-action settlement with the decades of undergrad students they defrauded, so they really needed this 100 million gift to make sure the administration got paid and the grad students won't.

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This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today. Let me explain... 🧵 1/

The University of Chicago just received $100 million from an anonymous donor. Donations of that size fundamentally shift an institution’s programming and priorities, and we know that donors exert influence on campus policy. So this is—as one of my colleagues put it—basically dark money, it should be illegal to stay anonymous when exerting this much influence on an institution that’s publicly supported through tax exemptions, federal grants, non-profit status, etc.
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Stirrings of Consciousness
@stirrings.bsky.social
Lurker and policy wonk. Definitely sleep-deprived. She/her
153 followers218 following924 posts
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