Why don't we compel the professional sports organizations to start farm
clubs for Football and Basketball, like we have for Baseball? It would
resolve this hypocrisy, improve the sports and probably help the economy
of smaller cities. I find it tragic that students at large Universities
with essentially professional sports teams cannot play on the school
football and basketball teams. Get the farm clubs out of the
Universities and these problems will be solved.
The IRB did the right thing by exempting her research. Even if they
don't exempt the study, and review it, she will likely be approved.
Fortunately, one of the positive things about IRBs is that they are
essentially independent of the administration. If anyone in the
administration tries to influence the deliberations, UNC could get into
a lot more trouble than bad news about their athletes.
The administration is between a rock and a hard place. If this was
research about something other than the University itself, they could
prohibit the research based on its poor quality. Since the object of
the research is the University, prohibiting the study makes it appear
that the administration is suppressing the study.
Although tenure has a general bearing on the issues, I did not read that
the investigator was tenured. This case suggests that a free press
(CNN) may keep the University fair and honest.
Mike Williams
On 1/20/14 11:00 PM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
digest wrote:
For your friends who question tenure...
Subject: For your friends who question tenure...
From: Christopher Green<[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:44:25 -0500
X-Message-Number: 2
For those of you (probably not many on this list) who might have thought that tenure is
unnecessary in this "modern" era to protect the integrity of research from the
political motivations of a vindictive administration.
UNC IRB suddenly reverses its decision AFTER THE FACT on whether research that
shows many of its athletes to be functionally illiterate requires oversight.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/20/u-north-carolina-shuts-down-whistle-blower-athletes
Sheesh!
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
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