Corporate Funding

A Not-So-Slippery Slope

It’s not slippery. It’s simple. By accepting research funding from the tobacco industry, universities risk their integrity, values, and public trust.

When Research Turns to Sludge

It’s not just corporate funding that creates conflicts of interest. Even government and nonprofit funding can have strings attached.

BP, Corporate R&D, and the University

Some lessons from the oil spill are simple: public universities should not agree to restrictive contracts that limit research, publication, or transparency.

Big Oil Bankrolls Research at U.S. Universities

Last month, the Center for American Progress released a new report, Big Oil Goes to College, documenting how, over the past decade, oil companies and other energy firms have underwritten more than $800 million in energy research at prominent U.S. universities, with few safeguards in place to protect academic autonomy, scientific objectivity, or scholarly independence.

From the President: Corporate-Funded Research

Shortly after the news broke that BP was issuing research contracts with unusually restrictive provisions to scientists doing research on the Gulf oil spill, I published a statement of concern in Inside Higher Ed.

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