Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who argue for the need for more Black professors emphasize the importance of role models. If the paucity of Blacks interested in pursuing a career in academia is ever to be over-come, it will no doubt require in part the help of some Black professors acting as mentors...
...perpetrators of this mischief? At first glance they seem an odd and varied lot. The Pakistani brothers are self-taught programmers isolated from the rest of the computer community. Two viruses exported to the U.S. from West Germany, by contrast, were bred in academia and spread by students. Other outbreaks seem to have come directly out of Silicon Valley. Rumor has it that the SCORES virus was written by a disgruntled Apple employee...
BACK then, Bok and other Harvard officials cited ethical concerns that remain just as relevant today. Bok argued at the time that companies' desires to keep trade secrets may be fundamentally incompatible with academia's commitment to freedom of information. Furthermore, such investments "could confuse the University's central commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and learning by introducing into the very heart of the academic enterprise a new and powerful motive--the search for commercial utility and financial gain," Bok said...
...factors pressing for university-industry involvement have become more compelling in recent years. The fact is that academia needs the money. Support for basic scientific research from the federal government and private sources has fallen drastically in the last 20 years, making it harder for schools to bankroll the expensive work performed in today's labs. Harvard has promised that the 10 percent in profits it receives will be devoted to faculty research...
Other schools seem to have already decided that these positives outweigh the dangers of academia's involvement in industry. Stanford University collects more than $9 million from licenses on its discoveries, while MIT pulls in more than $3 million. Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins and Washington University have set up arrangements similar to Harvard...