When your legacy is OT education and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

I support free market capitalism, and respect ownership rights people have in the money they have earned through voluntary trade.  Since the money belongs to them they should be able to spend it or give it away at their own discretion.This week we all learned that the University of Southern California Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy received a $20 million gift from the Chan family.  The gift creates the first named and endowed occupational therapy program in the nation, according to the school's website.The article states that USC is a pioneer in occupational science and occupational therapy.  An interesting feature of occupational science is that it purports to be an interdisciplinary field that is intended to inform the occupational therapy profession by providing basic research knowledge about the occupational nature of human behavior.Since the inception of this 'new science,' several scholars have pursued studies relating to the social and political nature of occupations (Wilcock, 1998; Townsend and Wilcock, 2004; Pollard, Sakellariou, and Kronenberg, 2008).  These authors have all been proponents of a concept of occupational justice, which is loosely equivalent to the political concept of social justice, except focusing on the occupational nature of the issue.  Embedded within these beliefs are concepts including occupational apartheid, occupational deprivation, and occupational alienation.  The solutions to these p...
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