Mizzou Ignored Donor's Conservative Intent, Lawsuit Asserts (bequest defaults to HIllsdale College)

The University of Missouri has faced a tough few years. First, there were well-publicized protests stemming from student allegations that the administration responded inadequately to racial bias on campus. At one particularly charged demonstration, a (since fired) journalism professor called for “muscle” to prevent a student journalist from taking video of the protesters. This was followed by declining enrollment, budgetary shortfalls, the temporary shuttering of dorms, and staff layoffs from which the school has only started to recover.

But Mizzou’s latest challenge comes in the form of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by Hillsdale College, a conservative institution in rural Michigan. In 2002, the university received a $5 million bequest from financier Sherlock Hibbs. A 1926 graduate of Mizzou, Hibbs intended for his grant to fund six professorships at the Trulaske College of Business to be filled by devotees of free market economics.

In order to ensure the money was spent as he intended, Hibbs included in his will a unique enforcement provision. Mizzou would be required to certify every four years to the satisfaction of Hillsdale College that each professorship had been filled by “a dedicated and articulate disciple of the Ludwig von Mises (Austrian) School of Economics.” The remaining funds would revert to Hillsdale in the event that this requirement was not met.

Hillsdale is perhaps uniquely qualified to make this determination — von Mises bequeathed his personal library to the college, where it resides in a special reading room. And officials at the school claim that the University of Missouri has fallen short of Hibbs’ intent.

Hillsdale’s suit is helmed by Jay Nixon, former Democratic governor of Missouri and a Mizzou grad himself. “I believe both from my time as governor and my time as [Missouri] attorney general that donor intent is important...

Don’t get misdirected here. The importance of teaching our Constitution in Universities is what’s important. Sending the $$$ to a choir may be emotionally satisfying, but its wrong. FORCE them to teach the Constitution on their campus. And better yet, make it a required course.

I believe that is what Hillsdale is attempting to do. Or do you think they should just abdicate their fiduciary responsibilities?

It is always good to see the left get called out for their lying, deception, and theft. Even better when they have to pay a price for it.

Another example why I’ll NEVER give another $ to “education” How ironic that former Dim Guv Nixon is representing Hillsdale This was the clown who made the ridiculously biased and “impassioned” speech during the Michael Brown Fiasco It effectively removed ANY chance for the Dim nomination for the Presidency

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