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Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships

by American Association of University Professors American Association of University Professors

University of Illinois Press, 2014
Cloth: 978-0-252-03824-2 | Paper: 978-0-252-07982-5 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09658-7
Library of Congress Classification LC72.2.R43 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.0072073

ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

REVIEWS

"A magnificent document. It provides faculty, journalists, scientists, and policy makers with the information they need to confront and analyze this increasingly important problem . . . , and to assure that long standing concerns for academic freedom, ethical integrity, and the traditional values of the university will have a fighting chance throughout the United States."
--Gerald Markowitz, Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

"The 56 General Principles provide a nearly constitutional template for clearer understanding of how academy and industry collaborate today, and how they may do so more effectively in the future. Not to be missed is an invaluable Appendix giving exact language to use in incorporating these recommendations into faculty handbooks and collective bargaining agreements."
--Robert M. O’Neill, president emeritus of the University of Virginia and founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Summary of Recommendations

• Why the AAUP Is Issuing This Report

• Academic Freedom: The Relationship between Individual Faculty Rights and the Public Interest

• Embracing Diverse Missions: A Brief History of Academy-Industry Relationships

• The Growth of University-Industry Engagement: 1970 to the Present

The Bayh-Dole Act, the Stanford v. Roche Decision, and Campus IP Management

Other Factors Driving Academy-Industry Engagement

• Types of Academy-Industry Research Collaboration

• The Benefits and Compromises of Academy-Industry Engagement

Risk 1: Violations of Academic Freedom and Researcher Autonomy

Risk 2: Restricted Access to Data and Suppression of Negative Results

Risk 3: Threats to Open Science, Knowledge Sharing, and Timely Publication

Risk 4: Financial Conflicts of Interest (FCOI)

Risk 5: Research Bias and Unreliability Associated with Corporate Funding

Risk 6: The Absence of Legal Protections to Safeguard Research Integrity and Academic Freedom in Industry-Sponsored Research Contracts

Detailed Discussion of the 56 Recommended Principles

• Part I. General Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships University-Wide (1–7)

• Part II. General Principles for Academic Education and Training (8–10)

• Part III. General Principles for Management of Intellectual Property (IP) (11–21)

• Part IV. General Principles for Management of Conflicts of Interest (COI) and Financial Conflicts of Interest (FCOI) (22–31)

• Part V. Targeted Principles: Managing COI in the Context of Clinical Care and Human Subject Research (32–35)

• Part VI. Targeted Principles: Strategic Corporate Alliances (SCAs) (36–48)

• Part VII. Targeted Principles: Clinical Medicine, Clinical Research, and Industry Sponsorship (49–56)

Appendix A: Faculty Handbook and Collective Bargaining Agreement Versions of the 56 Principles

Appendix B: The Sources of the 56 Principles: A Summary of Which Principles Are New, versus Those Derived from AAUP or Other Professional Groups’ Recommendations

Endnotes

Back Cover

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