This article is a case study of the financial ties between Freeport-McMoRan Corporation and Loyola University, New Orleans. Freeport is a large transnational corporation that has a deplorable domestic and international environmental and human rights record in West Papua Loyola University is a so-called social justice university that is advertised as an independent university that fosters critical thinking. The following analysis centers on Freeport's endowment of the environmental communication chair at Loyola and how Freeport constrained the internal operations of the university when faculty members and students protested the investment. It is argued that Freeport's investment in a social justice university provides a public relations function of greenwashing and human rights sterilization.
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