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Social Responsibility and the Knowledge Industry

(With Major Focus on the Social Responsibility of Research Universities)

What are the social responsibilities of the "knowledge industry" which generates and disseminates knowledge-power? How can researchers themselves influence the uses to which their discoveries are put?

Moderator:

• Don Cole, Economics, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940; fax: (201) 408-3439; e-mail: dcole@drew.edu.

• Jonathan Feldman, Program Director, National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament, 1621 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 350, Washington, D.C. 20009; (202) 462-0091; fax: (202) 232-7087. Author of Universities in the Business of Repression. He will explore the relationship of the university to knowledge and power.

• Roger L. Shinn, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary; 3041 Broadway, New York, NY 10027; fax (212) 280-1416. Author, Forced Options. He will place the modern university in a historical perspective, with special emphasis on the nature of the moral challenge confronting us.

• Alfred F. Anderson, retired teacher of mathematics, science and philosophy; author: Liberating the Early American Dream. 3120 Romero Rd., Tucson, AZ. Will discuss the role of the global knowledge industry in the global marketplace.

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