Word: safran
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Here is a brief recap of the case surrounding Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran, the Harvard faculty member who prompted the recent debate...
Foremost among the issues facing the faculty was the thorny problem of government-supported research. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran was forced to resign as director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies after secret CIA funding for his research and a conference was made public. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence eventually published a report which shifted much of the blame onto some supposedly sloppy administration by Spence's predecessor, Henry Rosovsky. The report was widely perceived both inside and outside of the faculty as a whitewash, and a superficial one at that...
...University Hall to establish firm controls on this kind of activity. President of the University Derek C. Bok has promised new guidelines to prevent a repeat of this fiasco, and one can only wish him Godspeed. But as Dean Spence's secretive and timorous handling of the Safran affair demonstrates, the University has been slow and inept at adapting to new funding problems to the current drain on research resources...
...intensive concerns, both moral and academic, have invaded Harvard's graduate schools and advanced-study centers. Last year a mini scandal at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies raised new questions about whether Government funding of university research might encroach on academic freedom. The center's director, Professor Nadav Safran, broke university policy by planning a conference on Islamic Fundamentalism without first notifying Harvard or participants that it had CIA underwriting, and further offended colleagues by publishing a book on Saudi Arabia that contained no acknowledgement of similar financing. Safran has since resigned as director. "These are serious issues...
...fact, Bok says that until he began his investigation six months ago into the CIA presence on college campuses, he was uninformed himself about many of the issues surrounding the intelligence agency's rules for academics. Bok began his investigation after learning that two Harvard Government professors, Nadav Safran and Samuel P. Huntington, failed to disclose their acceptance of CIA funds. Both professors granted the spy agency pre-publication review of their manuscripts, which many scholars consider unethical...