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Scientists working on climate change and other environmental issues often speak of the risk of “crying wolf,” concerned about losing credibility if the threats they are documenting do not turn out to be as serious as current research suggests. However, the opposite worry—that they might fiddle while Rome burns—is hardly ever mentioned. Yet from the standpoint of social responsibility, understating a threat might be worse than overstating it, so why are scientists more concerned with losing credibility than with failing to adequately warn against risk?
Moreover, history shows us that scientists in the past often were willing to speak out strongly and clearly about perceived threats relevant to their scientific expertise. This talk explores the origins and historical development of the current tendency of scientists towards reticence, and the asymmetry of scientific anxiety.
Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P4A: Managing Research (and Open) Data.
“The history of why there's the University Center for Excellence…is somewhat unique,” states David Mank. David was director of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community when he was interviewed in 2015. He shares the story about President Kennedy preparing his State of the Union address in 1962 and realizing there was a lack of information about the quality of life for people with disabilities. President Kennedy shared this information with his sister, Eunice Kennedy, and Bob Cooke, a pediatrician who specialized in developmental disabilities. From their discussion, an idea developed that every state should have a center that could provide data on the status of people with disabilities. This idea grew into the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act) of 1963. The legislation also defined the development of State Councils on Developmental Disabilities and Protection and Advocacy in every state.
"I think it's extremely important that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities be a continued and increasingly strong voice in developmental disability issues of the day. And be in the rooms where decisions get made about funding, services, and issues for people with developmental disabilities." When David Mank was interviewed in 2015, he had been director of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University (IIDC) since 1996. David describes the history of University Centers for Excellence on Disabilities in the U.S. and, more extensively, the history of the IIDC. He focuses on the quarter-century directorship of his predecessor Dr. Henry Schroeder, and on the Institute's work in the areas of special education (with its movement towards integrated and inclusive practices), as well as the areas of supported employment, autism, early childhood, and aging. He talks about the Institute's relationship with its sister organizations (the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities and Indiana Disability Rights) in promoting self-advocacy and livable communities.
David shares an anecdote about the occasion when vocal attendees at a 2008 national self-advocacy convention in Indianapolis led to the removal of the "R" word from the name of an Indiana commission. Recognized as an expert in the area of employment for people with disabilities, David discusses best practices in transition from high school to adulthood, promoting integrated employment, and the growing opportunities for post-secondary education of individuals with intellectual disabilities. As a former member of the "317 Commission," he recalls its origins during a time when an expose of abusive conditions at New Castle State Developmental Center was broadcast, and the good outcomes that developed out of the commission's report in 1998. David Mank retired as director of the IIDC in 2016.
Del Brinkman has had a distinguished career in journalism and university teaching and administration. He began his career in 1954 on the staff of The Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gazette and retired in 2002 as dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also helped shape journalism education through work with an accrediting organization and with a national journalism foundation.
Brinkman was born in Olpe, Kansas, and earned his bachelor’s degree in English and social science from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. After writing for the Emporia paper, Brinkman taught at Leavenworth (Kansas) High School and was on the journalism faculty at Kansas State University in Manhattan. He taught journalism at Indiana University and was a tenured faculty member at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
Brinkman was on the faculty at University of Kansas for 23 years starting in 1970, served as dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism there for 11 years and was vice chancellor for academic affairs for seven years.
He left KU in 1993 and served seven years as director of journalism programs for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida. In this role, Brinkman was responsible for managing an annual grant budget, screening grant requests, evaluating funded projects and developing new initiatives and projects. In 2001, Brinkman left this position and began his duties as the dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Throughout his career, he also was active in journalism education curriculum development and national accreditation policy-making. He was president of the accreditation committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. He served as president of the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award club in 1986.
Brinkman was honored several times for his work. In 2003, he received the Dean’s Award from University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications. In 2012, Brinkman was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Brinkman earned his master’s degree in journalism and political science from IU in 1963 and returned to Bloomington in 1971 for his doctorate in mass communications and political science. During his time at IU, he was a counselor for the High School Journalism Institute and has said in interviews that he enjoyed taking theater courses. He was awarded the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1971.
Brinkman lives in Bloomington with his wife, Carolyn, and remains involved in IU Journalism activities. He is a member of Rotary International, the Ernie Pyle Society, Bloomington Press Club, IU Journalism Alumni Board and the IU Student Publications Board.
Video bio of Dick Florea, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2015.
Narrator: Larry Bower;
Video: WKJG-TV;
Editing: Dave White, DreamVision Media Partners;
Dick Florea had a 35-year career at WKJG-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he served from 1966 until his retirement in 2001. While there, Florea served as news director and anchorman, public affairs and community relations director and host of the daily interview show “Editor’s Desk.” He shared the broadcast desk with legendary Indiana sportscaster and station manager Hilliard Gates. Recognized and admired by broadcasters across the state, Florea is the past president of the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers and the Associated Press Broadcasters of Indiana. He is a graduate of Purdue University, where he was regularly heard in the 1950s on WBAA-AM/FM as a newscaster and classical music host.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers