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mmooss • today at 9:39 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Academic and intellectual freedom would seem to be major questions given the size of the gift and the location:

And are they academically and intellectually free from Griffin? Can CMU itself or their Florida school do things and have programs that violate Griffin's beliefs?

And I wonder how CMU intends to handle the limits to academic freedom and other l freedoms in Florida. Maybe being a private university will insulate them? At the heart of this issue: Why is it important to Griffin to put the school in Miami, FL? There are obvious political possibilities.

Freedom isn't incidental; it's the core of what America is and it drives unprecedented innovation and prosperity, among other things.

Also, as someone else posted: How much is this a CMU campus, and how much a Griffin campus for which he paid to use the CMU name?