Who should be ultimately responsible for ensuring the academic integrity of each educational institution?
DB: At present, the responsibility lies very heavily in the hands of the president or the top very few officials at the university. And I believe that that is unwise, because the president is under enormous pressure to raise money. He or she is often judged on how much money they raise. And as a result, without some greater support from other constituencies in upholding the essential values of the institution, I fear that this process of erosion is bound to take place-just as it has in athletics. So I believe there is a role for the trustees to play, not just in paying attention to how much money we’re raising, but by paying a lot of attention to how we’re doing it: not [by] getting into the micromanaging details of each research contract, but by making sure that there’s a careful review of corporate research to make sure that there are appropriate guidelines for secrecy and conflict of interest, and by doing their best to make sure that key officials, like the technology transfer offi
