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In article <1992Dec16.132319.520@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dsmith@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>My chairman insists that he can access this software without my permission and
>without even telling me that he is doing it.  He has refused to speak with me
>about this, but instead has gone over my head to our Dean, who has (in
>writing) made a unilateral policy decision that any resources I obtain as a
>University employee belong to the University, are controlled by the 
>University, and are openly available to any University employee, faculty or
>student, without that person having to contact me, the PI.  Our university
>does not have a written policy on this matter.

i am not a funder, fundee, and probably not capable of being either, but
this struck me as wrong.

if i, as a large corporation, provided a grant to your department, to do
research on a specific thing, i would get real pissed to find out that what
i have given you is now being used all over the campus, without my knowing it.

i think that before the Dean gives authority for anyone, other than those
deemed in the funding papers, access, the dean should inform/get authority
for that funding to be used by any other department/project.

you could work this backwards, and find out what reaction the funder has
when they learn the total lack of respect the dean has for their funding.

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