Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, many professors raised ethical issues, questioning the role of industry in academia and expressing concern that doctors would exploit patients for personal profit...
...disclosure of a new Med School plan linking industry with academia raised questions in the fall concerning the school's ethical standards, and the actions of two of the school's members furthered damaged the Med School's credibility in the area of ethics...
Questions concerning industry's role in academia took center stage at the Med School when it was disclosed that Sheffer C.G. Tseng, an ophthalmology fellow, had apparently acted unethically in his research. Tseng was found by the University to have exaggerated results of his experiments on a vitamin A treatment for dry-eye disease while owning substantial stock in the company that manufactures the drug...
...gift became highly publicized, however, the school reversed its stance. B-School officials offered Goodpaster two additional years on the faculty, after which he will again be eligible for tenure review. Goodpaster and school officials have since declined to discuss his extension, which is an unusual arrangement in academia...
...unusual way of tenuring faculty...The number of women who received Ph.Ds in the 1970s and 1960s was not high, and people who are tenured are senior in age. It takes a while for that pool to go through the system. I will be delighted when the workforce in academia is more evenly distributed. I think it will be beneficial for students and certainly beneficial for scholarship in general. I'm not knowledgeable enough about Harvard to know if it is an unusual problem here. One could say that if the system has this effect perhaps we should question...