Ethics (via Linear perspective)

On By southwerkIn business ethics

Should a corporation be able to influence curriculum at a college to provide it with free research? Should a school forbid publication of research that might be embarrassing to a corporate donor? These are questions discussed in this posting. We might add, “Should faculty promotion be based on winning research grants?” How about, “In a free society, how much should a public college depend on corporate money to operate?”

Where does the public and private conflict? Should higher education be an informal extension of corporate interests?

Read the blog entry. It’s good. We all need to think about these things. Just letting it happen and continue by the force of inertia makes stopping or reining this influence in much more difficult.

James Pilant

Ethics Is it ethical to modify the curriculum of a subject in a graduate studies to suit the needs of an organization? We had a marketing project that required us to estimate the market size and the positioning of competitors for the parent body of the B-school. While doing this work, I felt enraged by the thought that the school had modified the deliverable of the course and was using MBA students to perform the market research. What bothered me more w … Read More

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  1. Andrew's avatar Andrew

    My wife has seen this more than I have. She is a canine trainer and nutritionist. She has a problem with veterinarians advertising and recommending inferior food, such as Pedigree brand foods, because Pedigree is one of the largest corporate donors to the major veterinary schools in the country.

    Very often, part of her training regime includes a change of diet. These inferior kibbles cause health problems with the dogs, and those health problems manifest both medically and behaviorally (Afterall, dont we all feel crabby when we dont feel well).

    Is it ethical? No. Is academia to blame for allowing corporations to dilute the integrity of its institutions? Yes.

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  2. crisisjones's avatar crisisjones

    An extension of what has become business as usual. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. The more attention we bring to these issues the greater the chance that honest folks will put an end to it.

    There is an emerging situation of monumental proportions RE The New Madrid Fault, and NLE 2011.

    We reported on this yesterday at crisisjones.wordpress.com. There is an audio report (23) that has potentially life saving information.

    PLEASE my friends, email the link to this report to EVERYONE you know.

    The people on The New Madrid Fault Line need to know what is coming on May 11.

    Thank You and May GOD continue to Bless Us All.

    -CJ

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