The role of Mario Scaramella, an Italian sometimes described as an academic, presented a dilemma for the inquiry.
Academics presented their views on social media, but the emphasis generally was on publishing.
At a meeting in Tel Aviv on the last day of October 1995, the academics presented the fruits of their labors.
At the conference, a team of Taiwanese academics presented an intriguing paper about the moral development of Taiwanese cadets.
I spoke with three people who listened to the academics present their work, and all said they found it invigorating.
Peter Lynn of the University of Essex reckons a fuss over the way some academics presented data, known as "climategate", may have had an effect.
It wasn't just eco-warriors saying this: "There were some serious academics, NGOs, labour unions, Marxists, and also a lot of young, bright highly-motivated kids," remembers Jackson, author of Prosperity Without Growth, and one of the academics present.
Carsten Maple, professor and pro vice-chancellor for research and enterprise hopes that investing in a new research management and administration system will help academics present external-facing reports for funders, prospective students and partners, and the public.
But this accessibility can have its downsides, especially when you become known as someone who deals with violent offenders, as opposed to an academic who presents programmes about physics or history.
For anyone concerned about students' moral development, academic dishonesty presents a pervasive problem but also a promising possibility.
