Ditto!  I belonged to a list managed by an individual who reviewed postings before sending them to the list.  Once my post was revised before it hit the list dramatically reducing the usefulness of the responses.  I found it stifling.

RESADM-L is a community and the discussion should be wide open!  That's why I love it.

Ruth

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of Forster, Marjorie
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:04 PM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] items of interest in President Obama's State of the Union speech (last night)

I wholeheartedly agree.  I found this recent exchange interesting and informative. Marjorie
On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Maggie Pyle wrote:

Dialogue, including opinion, is stimulating and often informative. We should welcome and encourage all forms of communication.

>>> Rhea Williamson <xxxxxx@CSUEASTBAY.EDU<mailto:xxxxxx@CSUEASTBAY.EDU>> 01/27/11 10:11 AM >>>
I prefer that this site not be used for opinionbit rather research
guidance and assistance.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 27, 2011, at 7:53 AM, "Cappellucci, James E." <xxxxxx@partners.org<mailto:xxxxxx@partners.org>
> wrote:

> Surely you jest.
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Research Administration List on behalf of Charles Hathaway
> Sent: Wed 1/26/2011 11:16 PM
> To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org<mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org>
> Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] items of interest in President Obama's State
> of the
> Union speech (last night)
>
>
>
> I think research administrators should be interested in how the
> federal govt
> balances its budget because we live in a country facing long-term
> financial
> disaster and not because the policy changes might have a short-term
> impact on
> our particular line of work.  Cut all budgets.  Raise all taxes.
>
> Charlie
> ________________________________________
> From: Research Administration List [RESADM-
> xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] on behalf
> of Paul Tuttle [xxxxxx@JUNO.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:41 PM
> To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org<mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org>
> Subject: [RESADM-L] items of interest in President Obama's State of
> the Union
> speech (last night)
>
> [Full text and video are available at
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/obama-state-of-the-union-_1_n_813478.ht
> ml.]
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I don't know whether you watched President Obama's State of the
> Union speech
> last night.  From my perspective, there were several statements
> pertinent to
> research administrators, particularly university research
> administrators.
>
> First was "an investment in research and development" in certain key
> areas--biomedical research, information technology, clean energy,
> etc.--all
> encapsulated within a focus on innovation.
>
> Second was a focus on educational reform based on the premise that
> secondary and
> postsecondary education are both significant drivers of innovation.
>
> Third was a promised review of government regulations in order to
> reduce and/or
> eliminate unnecessary burdens on businesses.  (A side note: One
> could argue that
> higher education should be relieved of certain kinds of unnecessary
> burdens as
> well, especially considering that immediately prior to this section
> of his
> speech, President Obama recognized our nation's colleges and
> universities as
> vitally important innovation engines.)
>
> Fourth was a proposed five-year domestic spending freeze.
> (President Obama's
> freeze would be at a different level from levels suggested by his
> political
> rivals on the Republican side of the aisle; no matter which level is
> selected,
> though, a domestic spending freeze would appear to result in effective
> stagnation of funding levels in many federal funding programs.)
>
> Fifth was his promise that his administration "will develop a
> proposal to merge,
> consolidate, and reorganize the federal government" to develop a
> more efficient
> government (I'm paraphrasing the ideas around this quote).  His
> examples were of
> multiple federal agencies that have similar or identical mission
> components
> and/or areas of responsibility.  This has obvious implications for
> certain
> federal funding programs, especially when considered as relatively
> broad
> categories such as "health" or "education."
>
> His sixth and final point that to my mind may affect research
> administrators is
> his promise to veto any bills that include earmarks.
>
> Please keep in mind that this is just my personal opinion of the
> statements
> President Obama made in last night's State of the Union speech that
> I felt may
> affect us research administrators.  Still, I thought these
> statements were
> significant enough to be extracted and discussed on professional
> listservs like
> this one.
>
> Best,
>
> Paul Tuttle
> xxxxxx@juno.com<mailto:xxxxxx@juno.com> or (336) 692-3289 [cell]
>
>
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