Commissions, Reports, Reforms, and Educational Policy

Commissions, Reports, Reforms, and Educational Policy

Author: Rick Ginsberg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1995-06-28

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0313005044

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The editors have collected original papers dealing with the impact of commissions on educational policy and reform. This book is a combination of the perspectives of practitioners directly involved with writing or reacting to commission reports, and scholars analyzing the significance and impact of educational policy. Chapters are written by some of the country's leading authorities on education. This book will prove to be a valuable resource for educators, administrators, political scientists, sociologists, and others interested in the state of education. Includes a foreword by Paul E. Peterson of Harvard University.


Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships

Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships

Author: American Association of University Professors American Association of University Professors

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2014-02-15

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0252096584

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The reputation of a college or institution depends upon the integrity of its faculty and administration. Though budgets are important, ethics are vital, and a host of new ethical problems now beset higher education. From MOOCS and intellectual property rights to drug industry payments and conflicts of interest, this book offers AAUP policy language and best practices to deal with all the campus-wide challenges of today's corporate university: • Preserving the integrity of research and public respect for higher education • Eliminating and managing individual and institutional financial conflicts of interest • Maintaining unbiased hiring and recruitment policies • Establishing grievance procedures and due process rights for faculty, graduate students, and academic professionals • Mastering the complications of negotiations over patents and copyright • Assuring the ethics of research involving human subjects. In a time of dynamic change Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships offers an indispensable and authoritative guide to sustaining integrity and tradition while achieving great things in twenty-first century academia.


GAO Documents

GAO Documents

Author: United States. General Accounting Office

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.