Suffolk splits from conservative research center
Suffolk University will end its partnership with the conservative think tank, Beacon Hill Institute.
Suffolk said that the school requires centers to be self-sustaining, and the institute – a branch of the school’s economics department – had run a deficit for years, The Boston Globe reports. However, the institute’s director said the school refused to allow research proposals, and placed strict fund-raising rules on the center.
According to the Globe, both parties agreed the Beacon Hill Institute initiated the divorce, which comes six months after Margaret McKenna was named president of the school.
The Globe reports Suffolk’s relationship with the institute had been rocky since they sought almost $40,000 for an economic analysis that would urge repealing carbon-reduction efforts by states in the northeast – inconsistent with Suffolk’s mission, a spokesman said at the time.
The center also recently came out in favor of a new natural gas pipeline in Massachusetts, and has faced backlash from Suffolk students for taking donations from the Koch brothers.
According to the Globe, the university will fund the Beacon Hill Institute through 2016, the end of its current contract.
Read the full story at the Globe.
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