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The AAUP should consider collaborating with other nonprofit academic and public-interest organizations to develop and promulgate “best-practice” models and principles for universities and their faculty senates to adopt to ensure that commercial and academic-industry relationships on campus remain consistent with the university’s core academic research and educational missions. The AAUP should then play a vigorous role in implementing these standards by issuing appropriate statements of concern and undertaking investigations whenever sufficient evidence exists to warrant such action. The principles and models should cover a number of critical, neglected areas: regulation and oversight of industry-sponsored research contracts; large-scale academic-industry research alliances (sometimes referred to as “strategic corporate alliances”); university patenting and licensing; and financial conflicts of interest (for individual faculty members, institutions, administrators, university financial managers, and boards of trustees).
Here are a few examples of best practices:
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