Ease Security Limits on Research, Panel Says

Autor/in	Monastersky, Richard
Titel	Ease Security Limits on Research, Panel Says
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2007) 10, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	National Security; Foreign Nationals; Cooperation; Research; Researchers; College Administration; Public Policy; Competition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Co-operation; Kooperation; Forschung; Researcher; Forscher; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Wettkampf
Abstract	Security restrictions imposed since 2001 have unnecessarily constrained university researchers, and those controls should be loosened in order to enhance the nation's economic and strategic competitiveness, says a report issued by the National Research Council of the National Academies. The report's authors, a committee of high-ranking officials with experience in academe and defense agencies, argued against policies that tighten controls on American researchers and impede collaborations with foreign scientists. The committee determined that "the closing of our ability to do research could do more harm than a potential leak" of sensitive materials or technologies, and that "to keep the country secure and to maintain our freedoms, we must strive to keep U.S. universities open, welcome students and scholars from around the world, and participate in international research, while limiting access when warranted and placing appropriate restrictions on narrow and well-defined high-risk areas." To support its case, the panel pointed to National Security Decision Directive 189, issued under President Ronald Reagan in 1985 in response to cold-war concerns that universities might serve as conduits that allowed technical information to flow to the Soviet Union. The directive stipulates that the government should classify research if it wants to control information developed under federally financed grants to universities. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10