The relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency and the academic world became evident to the author during a 1974 convention of the American Historical Association, at which he found that academic studies could be legwork for policies implemented by the CIA's operational branch. (LBH)

College teachers and their allies, including some research faculty, are beginning to advance the idea that the teaching profession and the enterprise of higher learning itself would be served badly if the research process become more important than the teaching/learning one. (LBH)

It is proposed that universities fund all research prospectively, one project at a time, as publishers do, and require faculty whose research has not been funded to fill his work schedule with teaching, effecting significant savings and the understanding that time off for research is not automatic. (MSE)