
“The Crown family’s investments in mass weaponry and war run counter to the National Association of Social Workers values of social justice, dignity, and worth of the person,” says a petition circulated by the group. “By accepting a donation from the Crown family, (the School of Service Administration) is complicit in the family’s efforts to promote continuous, violent, global conflict. As the School shifts its operations to this new capital source, its celebrated programming, scholarship opportunities, and faculty appointments — marketed as advancement toward social change — will be funded by the military-industrial complex. This is a startling hypocrisy.”