In 2018, Dan Colson, a Professor of English at Emporia State University (ESU) in Kansas, published an article titled, "Teaching Radically with Koch Money." In the piece, Colson details how he was fighting ESU's "embrace of right-wing, free-market 'investments' in higher education." Colson shares his experience using a grant from ESU's "Koch Center for Leadership and Ethics" to "work directly against the Center’s agenda."