Challenges to Research Universities

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

1998
Brookings Institution (Verlag)
978-0-8157-1509-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Roger G. Noll is professor of economics at Stanford University, California, USA, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.3.1998
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-8157-1509-9 / 0815715099
ISBN-13	978-0-8157-1509-2 / 9780815715092
Zustand	Neuware