FINAL DOCUMENT – FACULTY STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES & BEST PRACTICES CONCERNING STRATEGIC CORPORATE
ALLIANCES, Fall 2005
University Faculty Forum on Strategic Corporate Alliances
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
4:30p – 6:00p, Uris Hall Auditorium
Objective
To provide an opportunity for all faculty to engage in a dialog about the corporate sponsorship of Cornell’s research, and in particular, what features of such research agreements should a faculty committee be most concerned about?
Participants
- Thomas Coleman, Professor, Computer Science & Director, Cornell Theory Center
- W. Kent Fuchs, Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
- Risa Lieberwitz, Associate Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations
- Max Pfeffer, Professor, Development Sociology, Assoc. Director, CUAES
- Inge Reichenbach, Vice President, Alumni Affairs and Development
- Robert Richardson, Vice Provost for Research
Background Documents
Links to Articles on the Controversial Berkeley-Novartis Alliance
“Berkeley teams up with Novartis in $50m plant genomics deal” (Nature, 05 Nov 1998)- Editorial: “Is the university-industrial complex out of control?” (Nature, 11 Jan 2001)
- Response (29 Mar 2001) [with link to text of Berkeley-Novartis agreement]
- “A Vilified Corporate Partnership Produces Little Change (Except Better Facilities)”
(The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jun 22, 2001) - “Corporate Cash and Campus Labs” (Christian Sci Mon, 19 June 2001)
- “Novartis Revisited: Pro: Bob Buchanan / Con: Dr. Ignacio Chapela” (California Monthly Feb 2002)
- “Closing the Book on the Novartis Deal” (Berkeleyan, 29 Jan. 2003)
Articles on General Topics
- “What’s For Sale These Days in Higher Education: Two Stories” Robert Rosenzweig, Pres Emeritus, AAUP (1999)
- “Preserving the Academic Commons” David Bollier, Sr. Fellow Norman Lear Center (2003)
