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Friday, January 21, 2005
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HARVARD MUM ON PROF…
…headlines the Boston Herald in today’s follow-up article to yesterday’s piece about Stephen Goldsmith, a former mayor of Indianapolis and a current professor, specializing in privatization, at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Whether or not he is, as the Herald claims, in flagrant conflict of interest, Goldsmith is a busy man. He is a “top domestic advisor to President Bush,” a senior vice president of a firm that makes its money off of privatization, and a Harvard professor. [Wait a minute... lemme check something... WOW! Look at his website! He's even busier than I thought! A guy this good at scholarship, government, and business ought to be sized up for the next President of Harvard -- especially now that Summers's lease hath a shorter and shorter date.] “This guy is the patron saint of privatization… Harvard, which promotes this guy as a scholar, should have full disclosure of his conflict of interest,” says Jeff Waggoner, whose job involves arguing against public contracts being awarded to private companies like the one Goldsmith runs. “One local professor,” writes John Strahinich, the reporter for the Herald who’s trying to make something of all this, “said he wasn’t surprised. ‘I’ve always felt the Kennedy School is an ethically challenged place,’ said William Mayer, a noted author and professor at Northeastern. ‘This is the sort of thing that ought to be revealed. I don’t know why they don’t.’ ” |