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by _m_p 177 days ago
Faculty work products including syllabi and their research should be considered work-for-hire and owned by the public, since we pay their salaries.
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I’ll take the bait. I’m guessing you don’t pay state tax in Kansas, so you don’t pay my salary. I’m totally down with anyone in the state reading my stuff, though.
> I’ll take the bait. I’m guessing you don’t pay state tax in Kansas, so you don’t pay my salary. I’m totally down with anyone in the state reading my stuff, though.

With all the federal education grants/aid/what have you, it's hard to imagine that your institution is purely jayhawker funded.

Kansas universities, like other colleges and universities, receive federal funding and student loans.