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For UD, the conflict of interest, conflict of commitment…

… just … I dunno… conflict of EVERYTHING! — inspiration will always be Harvard’s last president, Larry Summers, who earned, I dunno, something in the mid hundreds of thousands for being Harvard’s president, but who got FIVE MILLION DOLLARS AT THE SAME TIME for whatever the fuck he did for some hedge fund ONE DAY A WEEK.

Even UD‘s recent acquisition of Hummer is unlikely to yield such results. (She’s already fielding emails from Hummer Club presidents about this that and the other. Who knew there were Hummer Clubs?)

But anyway, what with Senator Grassley making a fuss about it, lots of universities are trying to cough up new and improved COI language. (Language only, of course. The relationship of university administrators to faculty COI is much like the relationship of the NCAA to university sports programs.)

And then there are places like the University of Oregon, which doesn’t seem to have any COI policies at all. A significant segment of UO’s faculty is undergoing attachment issues as UO threatens to take away cherished freedoms…

This article takes a pretty intelligent look at COI at UO. The comments after the article are also worth a read.

Margaret Soltan, June 2, 2009 10:42AM
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One Response to “For UD, the conflict of interest, conflict of commitment…”

  1. UO Matters Says:

    There’s more on this posted at uomatters.com

    Currently, the most egregious violator isn’t faculty but an administrator, the VP for Diversity Charles Martinez.

    He’s got a 25 hour a week off-campus job, funded by NIDA grants. Total take: About $150k from UO, and another $85K from the feds. Small stakes compared to the med school types, but he’s got less of a reputation to sell!

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