"Condoleezza Rice serves an administration that has trashed the basic values of academia: reason, science, expertise, and honesty.
EVERYONE agrees the reform had the noblest of intentions; yet some now regard it as an assault on the values of academia.
It is a sign of how behind I am in my reading that over lunch last week I finally got around to reading the speech/blog post by Kathleen Fitzpatrick about "Giving it Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communications". It is an eloquent statement about how open access and the sharing of scholarship is really simply an extension of the core values of academia.
The new system, according to its critics, will give university managements unprecedented control over their academics' ability to publish their work, provoking Professor Peter Mandler, president of the RHS, to claim that the government is at risk of sacrificing the cherished values of British academia.
For example, a module in economic evaluation prepares attendees to incorporate cost-benefit and cost-utility analysis into decision making [ 19].These evidence-based resources and supports reflect the increasing awareness and perceived value of EBDM in academia, public health practice and funding organizations.
She also values the relaxed atmosphere of academia.
Publications carry a lot of value in academia, but this is slowly changing.
But years spent in the halls of academia, where value is judged on the basis of scientific publications and esoteric debates over technical minutiae, prevent many young and youngish scientists and engineers from seeing themselves as general problem solvers.
We hope that the IMMPACT process and the consensus recommendations that are developed will provide an example of the value of collaborative efforts between academia, government, and industry.
Stacie Grossman Bloom, executive director for the New York University Neuroscience Institute in New York City, said that neuroscientists often fail to recognize the value of their skills to employers outside of academia.
