The aim of his presentations has been to question the value of academic criticism.
For faculty members, he said: "I wish to reaffirm the great value of academic freedom.
As the value of academic economists grows, Columbia is luring a top star, Robert J. Barro, from Harvard, with $300,000 a year.
And what began as a labor dispute has evolved into a skirmish over a core value of academic life -- freedom of expression.
I've often found myself conflicted: on one hand I see the need to manage and on the other I also see the value of academic autonomy.
Mr. O'Donnell's public writings, which question the value of academic research, did not win him favor in the halls of academia or in the Capitol.
During the sixth meeting of the course, new product development is introduced to the class using a discussion of the value of academic research in this field.
One thing, in my opinion, that the best universities in the West can teach Indian universities is this value of academic honesty.
Ongoing research on the value of academic patents, largely based on patent citation analysis, suggests that the latter are more original and general than non-academic ones, but unlikely to be more highly cited.
Of all the regents, Mr. Cranberg was the one closest to Rick O'Donnell, a fellow former Coloradoan and an associate of Mr. Sandefer who had publicly questioned the value of academic research.
