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Science 28 November 1980:
Vol. 210. no. 4473, pp. 984 - 987
DOI: 10.1126/science.210.4473.984
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Science and the University

A. Bartlett Giamatti 1

1 Professor of English and Comparative Literature and president of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

The federal government-university relationship in scientific research has been eroded by excessive, unthinking regulations for the purposes of accountability. The Office of Management and Budget's Circular A-21 continues to jeopardize the quality of government-sponsored research in universities by demanding wasteful, meaningless work-load documentation. These regulatory demands must be revised to reflect the realistic obligations of accountability by a leadership capable of transcending special interests. Mutual respect between government and universities must be restored to achieve a partnership that helps better the national life while also protecting the integrity of the scientific faculty and its mission.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Rational Scientific Development: A Sociological Comment.
N. Tilley (1982)
Science Communication 3, 453-464
Reporting of Faculty Time: An Accounting Perspective.
A. L. Thomas (1982)
Science 215, 27-32
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Federal Funding of Basic Research: The Red Tape Mill.
H. S. Gutowsky (1981)
Science 212, 636-641
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Indirect costs of federally supported research.
K. Brown (1981)
Science 212, 411-418
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