ABSTRACT
Policymakers concerned with the nation's R&D enterprise and the leaders of the academic community have become increasingly concerned with the implications for academic science of the coming era of the "steady-state university." The gravity of the situation has even led observers to question the intimate relationship between research and graduate education—a relationship long viewed as the cornerstone of American academic science. Organized research unit's (ORU) and non-faculty researchers have not received a great deal of attention from students of academic organization, from university administrators, or from policymakers or in terms of the ways in which they might be affected by the changing situation of the universities. Stanley O. kenberry and Renee C. Friedman relate the faculty role in the establishment of ORU's to the relatively rise of academic professionalism in American higher education. Many universities permit ORU's to initiate recommendations for promotion, virtually all require departmental concurrence in the recommendations.
