{"id":43810,"date":"2018-05-25T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=43810"},"modified":"2018-05-25T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:38:17","slug":"whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\nGeorge Mason University President \u00c1ngel Cabrera\u00a0acknowledged this month<\/a>\u00a0that his school gave the Charles Koch Foundation \u201csome influence\u201d over hiring and evaluating faculty as it accepted\u00a0millions of dollars for its free-market research center<\/a>, the Mercatus Center.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0news rankled the academic world<\/a>, but it perhaps didn\u2019t come as a surprise. Many scholars saw this as just the latest revelation of strings-attached giving with an ideological slant \u2013 another encroachment on\u00a0the sacrosanct idea<\/a>\u00a0that teaching and research at universities, especially public ones like George Mason, must be immune from outside influence.<\/p>\n

Cabrera himself admitted that the Koch agreements with the Northern Virginia school \u201cfall short of the standard of academic independence we should expect in every gift,\u201d but as a\u00a0journalist-turned-professor<\/a>\u00a0who has\u00a0researched dozens of similar scenarios<\/a>, I think transparency is a bigger issue than academic freedom.<\/p>\n

Fundraising foundations<\/strong><\/h4>\n

It is George Mason\u2019s\u00a0fundraising foundation<\/a>, not the school itself, that accepts and manages donations, including\u00a0an estimated US$50 million<\/a>since 2005 from the Charles Koch Foundation and other foundations tied to\u00a0the billionaire industrialist<\/a>\u00a0and his brother, David.<\/p>\n

When a student-led group called\u00a0Transparent GMU<\/a>\u00a0sought copies of the Koch gift agreements under Virginia\u2019s Freedom of Information Act, the foundation said it was not subject to such requests because it\u00a0operates independently<\/a>, according to coverage in the Fairfax Times, a local newspaper.<\/p>\n

Foundations that raise, spend and invest private support for public universities have become staples of higher education in the last 40 years. They\u00a0often refuse freedom of information requests<\/a>, claiming that transparency laws governing their affiliated schools do not apply to independently operated\u00a0501(c)(3) nonprofits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A thin veneer<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Yet public-university foundations exist solely for the benefit of state-sponsored institutions, and they do work that the schools previously handled themselves. Furthermore, as\u00a0state support for higher education has dried up<\/a>, this kind of giving has increasingly funded such essentials as\u00a0administrators\u2019 salaries<\/a>,\u00a0academic programs, campus construction projects and scholarships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the Student Press Law Center calls these foundations \u201cpublic bodies cloaked in a thin private veneer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board, an independent private-sector organization that sets accounting and financial reporting standards,\u00a0considers the foundations to be \u201ccomponent units\u201d<\/a>\u00a0of public universities for three reasons. First, they fundraise for specific schools. Second, those schools get most of that money. Third, schools count on that revenue.<\/p>\n

A few states, like\u00a0California<\/a>,\u00a0Colorado and Nevada<\/a>\u00a0have laws on the books mandating at least some financial transparency from university foundations. Courts in states like\u00a0Illinois<\/a>,\u00a0Iowa<\/a>,\u00a0Kentucky<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ohio<\/a>\u00a0have found them to be public bodies or at least to be doing public work.<\/p>\n

In most states, however, the foundations and their records are generally presumed to be private.<\/p>\n

Transparent GMU\u2019s lawsuit<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The GMU Foundation is in court and the news because\u00a0Transparent GMU sued<\/a>\u00a0when its records request was declined, arguing that because the foundation conducts business on behalf of a public university, it should be considered an arm of the school and therefore subject to the state\u2019s freedom of information law.<\/p>\n

The activist group wants to learn<\/a>, among other things, which anonymous donor ponied up $20 million alongside the Koch Foundation\u2019s $10 million to\u00a0rename George Mason\u2019s law school<\/a>\u00a0after the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n

The university\u00a0did share some of the Koch agreements<\/a>\u00a0with the media, but not until after it was sued.<\/p>\n

Activists<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0journalists<\/a>\u00a0have long monitored Koch higher education donations because of the\u00a0scope and breadth<\/a>\u00a0of their giving, which totaled about\u00a0$150 million between 2005 and 2015<\/a>, according to media reports. Still, the concern should extend beyond the Kochs to cover transparency for all gift agreements of whatever political hue.<\/p>\n

Consider what happened when\u00a0John Allison<\/a>, an avowed fan of author and libertarian icon\u00a0Ayn Rand<\/a>, led BB&T. The U.S. bank offered colleges and universities grants averaging $1.1 million, usually with the stipulation that they design a new course incorporating Rand\u2019s \u201cAtlas Shrugged.\u201d<\/p>\n

BB&T also demanded that grantees create faculty positions, centers, speaker series and scholarships as part of a \u201cMoral Foundations of Capitalism\u201d program.<\/p>\n

Accounting scholar S. Douglas Beets\u00a0identified at least 63 schools<\/a>\u00a0that took this deal. But he had to\u00a0scour local news stories and press releases<\/a>\u00a0to find them. If open records laws automatically made all such agreements public, he would not have had to do all that sleuthing.<\/p>\n

The driving issue<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In short, I see no way to safeguard academic freedom without transparency. All the conditions embedded in gift agreements related to public colleges and universities should be brought to light, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

It would be great to include private schools as well, but they by definition are private entities not subject to sunshine laws.<\/p>\n

Foundations often\u00a0cite the need<\/a>\u00a0to respect donors\u2019 privacy because exposure might discourage giving, but I and\u00a0other researchers<\/a>\u00a0have not seen any evidence to support that connection.<\/p>\n

If names must be protected, the next best thing might be having objective third parties like state auditors vet these agreements. That way, any potential conflicts of interest or undue influence could more systematically come to light. The\u00a0Hartford Courant suggested<\/a>\u00a0this approach in an editorial supporting a bill that would have made the UConn Foundation subject to Connecticut\u2019s freedom of information law. The\u00a0legislature has since forced the foundation to be more transparent<\/a>, though it is still not subject to that law.<\/p>\n

Once courts and state governments do more to resolve the question of whether university-linked foundations are subject to disclosure requirements, the public might finally see whether their state schools are offering academic influence to all big donors \u2013 not just the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n

Author Bio: <\/strong>Alexa Capeloto is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Mason University President \u00c1ngel Cabrera\u00a0acknowledged this month\u00a0that his school gave the Charles Koch Foundation \u201csome influence\u201d over hiring and evaluating faculty as it accepted\u00a0millions of dollars for its free-market research center, the Mercatus Center. This\u00a0news rankled the academic world, but it perhaps didn\u2019t come as a surprise. Many scholars saw this as just the […]\n… learn more→<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":43811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[185194],"coauthors":[11733],"class_list":["post-43810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-higher-education","tag-strings-attached-giving"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs - World leading higher education information and services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs - World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"George Mason University President \u00c1ngel Cabrera\u00a0acknowledged this month\u00a0that his school gave the Charles Koch Foundation \u201csome influence\u201d over hiring and evaluating faculty as it accepted\u00a0millions of dollars for its free-market research center, the Mercatus Center. This\u00a0news rankled the academic world, but it perhaps didn\u2019t come as a surprise. Many scholars saw this as just the […]\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-05-25T20:38:17+00:00\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/KochCollege.png\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"680\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevin\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kevin\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kevin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\"},\"headline\":\"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-05-25T20:38:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":974,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/KochCollege.png\",\"keywords\":[\"strings-attached giving\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Higher Education\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/\",\"name\":\"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs - World leading higher education information and services\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/KochCollege.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-05-25T20:38:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/KochCollege.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/KochCollege.png\",\"width\":680,\"height\":480},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/\",\"name\":\"World leading higher education information and services\",\"description\":\"Global Higher Education Jobs, University jobs, Lecturer & tenure jobs.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\",\"name\":\"Kevin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ba4c352a279c450aa9435d770c1ebf4\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kevin\"},\"description\":\"Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/author\\\/kevin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs - World leading higher education information and services","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs - World leading higher education information and services","og_description":"George Mason University President \u00c1ngel Cabrera\u00a0acknowledged this month\u00a0that his school gave the Charles Koch Foundation \u201csome influence\u201d over hiring and evaluating faculty as it accepted\u00a0millions of dollars for its free-market research center, the Mercatus Center. This\u00a0news rankled the academic world, but it perhaps didn\u2019t come as a surprise. Many scholars saw this as just the […]","og_url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/","og_site_name":"World leading higher education information and services","article_published_time":"2018-05-25T20:38:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":680,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/KochCollege.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Kevin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kevin","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/"},"author":{"name":"Kevin","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee"},"headline":"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs","datePublished":"2018-05-25T20:38:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/"},"wordCount":974,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/KochCollege.png","keywords":["strings-attached giving"],"articleSection":["Higher Education"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/","name":"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs - World leading higher education information and services","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/KochCollege.png","datePublished":"2018-05-25T20:38:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/KochCollege.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/KochCollege.png","width":680,"height":480},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/whats-wrong-with-secret-donor-agreements-like-the-ones-george-mason-university-inked-with-the-kochs\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/world.edu\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What\u2019s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#website","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/","name":"World leading higher education information and services","description":"Global Higher Education Jobs, University jobs, Lecturer & tenure jobs.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee","name":"Kevin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ba4c352a279c450aa9435d770c1ebf4","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kevin"},"description":"Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.","sameAs":["https:\/\/world.edu"],"url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/author\/kevin\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43810"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=43810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}