Challenges to research universities /

In the 1990s, research universities have experienced the first protracted challenge to the boom of the preceding 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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Noll, Roger G.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©1998.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.17497015
Table of Contents:
  • The American research university : an introduction / Roger G. Noll
  • Universities, constituencies, and the role of the states / Linda R. Cohen and Roger G. Noll
  • Students and research universities / Gary Burtless and Roger G. Noll
  • The outlook for federal support of university research / Albert H. Teich
  • The economics of university indirect cost reimbursement in federal research grants / Roger G. Noll and William P. Rogerson
  • Soft money, hard choices : Research universities and university hospitals / Linda R. Cohen
  • Industry and the academy : uneasy partners in the cause of technological advance / Wesley M. Cohen [and others]
  • The future of research universities / Roger G. Noll.