This ability to do more consulting and other work is likely to lead to more issues arising under the University's existing policies, especially with respect to conflicts of commitment. We do not recommend any changes in existing policies, but we would urge faculty as well as administrators to become more sensitive to the policies that are in place and the ways in which issues can arise under them. Scholars must be able to control their own intellectual agendas and the way their work is presented to the rest of the world. When we do joint work now, issues are typically settled before publication. Most of the remaining ones arise only when time comes for a new edition.
Work done with new technology, however, never ceases being a work in progress.
How the work evolves and who controls its evolution are issues that will be questions constantly before us. Care must be taken at the outset to confront questions of control to ensure that we retain the kind of control of our ideas that is necessary to the academic enterprise. University Affiliation New information technologies provide a means by which we can teach outside the confines of the Quads. We can anticipate that in many cases the University, division, school, or department will appear to users as a source or a sponsor or co-sponsor of the work. Whenever the University, division, school, or department appears as a sponsor or producer of work, larger interests are implicated.