According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Academy of Sciences put together a panel of 18 members whom produced a 144-page report on university research growth as the government aims to regulate and monitor it. Some of the recommendations included harmonization and streamlining, in reference to assessing the issue.
The panel proposed that inspectors general be more involved with the process from a collaboration standpoint, and that “the relationship between inspectors general and research institutions should be based on a shared commitment to advancing the nation’s interest through a dynamic and productive research enterprise.”
Such rebalancing among inspectors general has caused issues, as Kenneth Donohue, a former inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, states that no where in the law does it say anything about collaboration or “collegiality with the programs – it says oversight and independence.”
To read Paul Basken’s article on the Chronicle of Higher Education, click here.