Agreed that MIT should be careful taking money from big donors with obvious agendas. When the Koches put money into universities, it typically has strings atta

Agreed that MIT should be careful taking money from big donors with obvious agendas. When the Koches put money into universities, it typically has strings attached - they get some say in hiring faculty that align with their agenda, for example. Here's more discussion of the Koch strategy to put money into universities, including MIT, in an effort to buy ideological support for their political goals (which are to destroy government to cut billionaires' taxes.) http://www.unkochmycampus.org/ http://www.unkochmycampus.org/ From Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/01/30/daily-202-koch-network-laying-groundwork-to-fundamentally-transform-america-s-education-system/5a6feb8530fb041c3c7d74db/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2... From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: https://apicciano.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/12/21/the-chronicle-of-higher-education-examines-the-charles-koch-foundation/ https://apicciano.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/12/21/the-chronic...