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...funding until it imposed a structure that placed more administrative control over the grant in the hands of University officials, angering some faculty members involved with the projects. Those faculty members said that the appointment of an executive director infringed upon the role of SPH Professor Phyllis J. Kanki, who applied for the grant...
...only reason they were even willing to start was because of the existing relationship they had with Professor Kanki and myself,” Murphy said. “We’ve been working there for years. It’s amazing that they worked for nothing...
...unfortunate that the University is forcing Kanki to manage her grant through an executive director who reports directly to Mass. Hall. However, given the tremendous size of the grant—almost two times larger than any other received by Harvard—and the liability Harvard assumed by accepting the grant, the administration’s actions are understandable though inexplicably heavy-handed...
However, we suspect that the University could have taken preventative measures in a more diplomatic and less severe manner. The University made several mistakes in dealing with Kanki that inflamed the situation. Officials at first attempted to appoint another researcher who had applied for the grant to co-manage the money with Kanki. They then compelled Kanki to report to an executive director who had little experience with AIDS issues in Africa. Though a new, expert executive director was eventually appointed, the damage was done...
...troubling. We firmly believe that no researcher should feel stifled by his or her University. Such a large and complicated grant necessitates transparent communication between the grant giver and the grant recipient. Disrupting that communication with a gag order is, at least, another annoying layer of red tape stymieing Kanki from fulfilling the stipulations of her grant. At most, as an official from the Association of American University Professors recently said, it constitutes an infringement on Kanki’s academic freedom...