Talk:Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

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Not adding this yet because I haven't found a good non-firsthand source, but it should probably be mentioned that KGI's founding was highly controversial, especially amongst the existing Claremont Colleges. The major complaint is that the institute does not grant tenure, which prompted a formal protest from the associated faculty of the other Colleges. The main worry, especially combined with the startup formed to commercialize the Institute's output, is that professors, without the security of tenure, will basically be hired researchers expected to use grad students as low-cost commercial labor for the biotech firm. Another more minor series of protests involved the proposed location of the Institute on the land previously set aside as the "Bernard Field Station" (basically a "nature preserve" of sorts on typical Inland Empire scrubland). --Delirium 15:47, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I went ahead and added a short section summarizing some of that. There are a number of articles in Pomona's The Student Life newspaper in their archives; I referenced one. There are also probably some articles in local Claremont and Pomona city papers, but I can't find any online (although I've only looked briefly). --Delirium 18:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)