A conservative think tank and Suffolk University in Boston have decided to end their relationship.
The Beacon Hill Institute, a free-market think tank at Suffolk since 1991, will end its connection to the university next year, according to Inside Higher Ed.
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The university announced that the institute made the decision to leave, but Beacon Hill Institute Director David Tuerck told The Boston Globe that “the school had made its work impossible by denying research proposals and imposing fund-raising rules that limited from whom it could take money.”
The difficulties culminated in Tuerck requesting an “amicable divorce.”
Margaret McKenna became university president six months ago at Suffolk, and is a political liberal. Tuerck, however, denied that he has “any basis” to suspect that the difficulties have been political.
The institute receives funding from private groups and government agencies, and previous research from the study were not syncing with the university mission, the university told the Globe.
Beacon Hill took criticism for accepting $33,000 in donations from the Koch Foundation over three years. Last year, the institute raised $1 million in donations, and Tuerck noted that it could do without Koch funding without any financial problems.
The institute has complained of problems with Suffolk over the last 10 years to the Boston Herald. Tuerck said the clashes were meant “to control what I say based on public relations or political considerations.”
Working from the economics department, the institute “specializes in the development of state-of-the-art economic and statistical models for policy analysis.”
