Thursday, June 14, 2012

The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 13, 2012, Wednesday

The Chronicle of Higher Education

June 13, 2012, Wednesday

The Chronicle of Higher Education (full article)

Ambitious AAUP Effort to Guide Relations Between Academics and Industry Meets Resistance

Risa L. Lieberwitz, professor of labor and employment law at Cornell who played a role in developing that university's guidelines and consulted the AAUP on its report, said Tuesday that strategic corporate alliances need to be governed by such principles. Otherwise, she said, university faculty members might lose autonomy over their research, which "undermines the integrity of our research and, ultimately, harms the public."