Discusses 3 alternatives for university-based research. (PG)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is going to announce a major change in its patent policies that will allow qualifying institutions to be guaranteed in advance the royalties from faculty inventions that result from NSF projects. (Author)

Philip Handler, President of the National Academy of Sciences, feels that the Nixon administration's budget may drive academic biomedical research into chaos. (Author/PG)

The newly created Energy Research and Development Administration plans to reorient its basic science program toward greater industrial participation and an effort to involve the high-energy physics community in applied research projects. (Author/PG)

The current, conventional approach to research does little to strengthen scholars' participation in civic life. However, models of research that promote more democratic inquiry methods, more reciprocal relationships between researchers and their subjects, and new collaborations between research institutions and communities are emerging and being…

Describes the serious financial crises facing the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California. (PG)

Problems arising from the "willful innocence" of researchers about the implications of their work for society are discussed. It is argued that it is the obligation of scholars to help keep science from being misused, by opening collaboration between scientist and nonscientist and by creating in the academy a real home for the changing models of…

The appointment of Robert M. Bellah to a permanent fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton has raised many questions concerning the nature of the institute and the quality of those who judge competence and excellence. (Author/PG)

A research study comparing vocational success of proprietary schools and public community college graduates, serves to demonstrate the distortion of research findings when those findings are contrary to the expectations of special interest groups and its effect on public policy. (KE)

The recent Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposal to revise, in the name of uniformity, the cost principles for university grants and contracts under federal auspices is examined, and the negative implications for higher education are discussed. (LBH)

Concern over and programs about the future of our society should be incorporated into more curricula in higher educational institutions. (HS)

The president of the Exxon Research and Engineering Company thinks that an increase in industry-supported academic research is economically and socially desirable. Ways industry and academia can overcome the obstacles to a better working relationship to forge new links between company and campus are outlined. (Author/MLW)

The loss of balance among the functions of the research university (instruction, basic and applied research, and professional training and service) produces a crisis of values. Many of the university's problems can be traced to this disequilibrium. Without increasing the value placed on teaching, curricular reform will be ineffectual. (MSE)