U of Alabama confidentiality agreement

[Harlow2]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/10/08/alabama-system-has-employees-sign-confidentiality-agreement Draconian new agreement.

  InsideHighrEd.com: "Employees in the University of Alabama system office received an email out of the blue last Friday asking them to sign a confidentiality agreement that would effectively prohibit them from speaking to anyone outside the office about their work."

Some of this, ie patents and trade secrets, makes some sense. But researchers must have supervisory approval to speak with others. How this will affect conference participation and other thing remains to be seen.

[Kate]

This is only for those employees who are not faculty. This is how I read this article.

[Wahoo Redux]

Boy, this sure ignited the Streisand Effect.

Rob Holbert, co-publisher and managing editor of Lagniappe, wrote about the agreement for the paper Tuesday. Holbert has covered financial irregularities at the system for months, and he suspects the confidentiality agreement may be a response to his reporting and repeated requests for information.

Good job, UoA.

[Harlow2]

Interesting. Thanks for the additional info.