February 4, 2005

Colleges and Industry Can Work Together

By JENNIFER WASHBURN

Over the last two decades, as colleges have become more like commercial enterprises, the ability of scholars to perform research that is critical of industry -- for example, research on environmental pollution or occupational health hazards -- has gradually diminished, as has the willingness of higher-education institutions to defend professors whose findings conflict with the interests of corporate sponsors. In the past, forces within academe have risen up to champion pure

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