• Political Theology Network essay in "Pandemic, Pandemonium, and Public Health" - Don't Fall for False Tradeoffs (April 2020)

• St. Louis American oped on the "man of system" in our midst, with David Rapach

• November 2015 public testimony on the economic impact of professional sports

  • npr story; Jason Rosenbaum Marketplace story

  • oped

• Things I've signed

  • Anti-Austerity Petition at Jesuit Institutions, Fall 2020

  • Economists Oppose Trump's Re-election, October 2020  [There's one from business professors too.]

  • Bail Out People Before Large Corporations, March 2020

  • Economists' Statement on Support for Jobs and Businesses in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic, March 2020

  • Open letter on trade, May 2018

  • Open letter on immigration, 2017

  • Liberalism Unrelinquished

  • Brief of Amici Curiae, 2015

• SLU  Reflections

  • Advent 2015, Advent 2012, Advent 2011

  • Lent 2020 - MOCRA Stations of the Cross in a Time of Pandemic, Station 3; Lent 2014

  • Mission Matters, Labor Day 2014

• Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Donor Influence Policy

• 2015 Strategic Planning:  Discerning Steward of Resources TWG

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SLU AAUP chapter

Donor influence concerns at SLU

SLU has not made a clear commitment to academic independence.  At SLU, current practice allows high-dollar donors to purchase roles and influence in academic matters.  In particular, in exchange for contributions, high-dollar donors are allowed to participate in search committees, hiring decisions, and in decisions about the funding (or not) of individual research projects.  Information about these practices and why they are problematic is available at the links below.

(While I only became aware of these practices in 2018, some claim that SLU has engaged in the granting of special academic privileges for high-dollar donors for years.  Some have also noted that there may be tax implications in such cases, and that those implications may be difficult to discern due to lack of transparency in the granting of privileges.)

• SavingSLU pieces:  

  • https://savingslu.org/chaifetz-school-of-business/donor-influence-in-hiring-and-nepotism-at-the-chaifetz-school-of-business/

  • https://savingslu.org/administration/academic-search-committee-seats-for-sale/

  • https://savingslu.org/sinquefield-donation/better-apart-keep-the-show-me-institute-out-of-slu/

• September 24, 2019 oped in ProMarket - the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

• December 2019 conference on academic lobbying

• Lessig:  How Academic Corruption Works.  (It’s not the morally lax scholar who’s most vulnerable. It’s the honest one.)

• Dave Rapach's academic capture page

• SLU Faculty Senate ad hoc committee 2019 report and recommendations