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Challenges to Research Universities
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2010
Summary
The American research university enjoyed an unprecedented boom from the end of World War II until the 1990s. All sources of financial support for universities--federal grants, private gifts, state appropriations, student tuition, and revenues from university medical centers--grew substantially. As a result, traditionally prestigious universities expanded and numerous other universities were transformed from primarily teaching institutions to significant research centers. But in the 1990s, research universities have experienced the first protracted challenge to the boom of the preceeding four decades. This book examines the nature of the challenges to research universities, and their likely effects on the number, size, and operation of these universities. The authors assess the prospects for research support from government, industry, and profits from university medical centers, and conclude that the future does not appear bright in these cases. They also examine the methods used by the federal government to pay for university research, and propose changes that would make both universities and the federal government better off by reducing the administrative costs of federal grants. Their primary conclusion is that in the next decade American research universities will face increasingly stringent budgets, and will be forced to shrink and refocus their activities in order to survive as research institutions.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-1509-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-0808-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
217
Product type
Edited Book
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1. The American Research University: An Introduction No access Pages 1 - 30
2. Universities, Constituencies, and the Role of the States No access Pages 31 - 62
3. Students and Research Universities No access Pages 63 - 86
4. The Outlook for Federal Support of University Research No access Pages 87 - 104
5. The Economics of University Indirect Cost Reimbursement in Federal Research Grants No access Pages 105 - 146
6. Soft Money, Hard Choices: Research Universities and University Hospitals No access Pages 147 - 170
7. Industry and the Academy: Uneasy Partners in the Cause of Technological Advance No access Pages 171 - 200
8. The Future of Research Universities No access Pages 201 - 206
