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Salomaa, Maria; Caputo, Andrea – Tertiary Education and Management, 2021
Universities of applied sciences (UAS) have a strong mandate to carry out research, development and innovation (RDI) activities in collaboration with local stakeholders. Geographical proximity is one of the key factors for the creation and success of RDI activities because of the positive balance between costs and benefits of local knowledge…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Research and Development, Innovation, Institutional Mission
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DeLoatch, Eugene M., Ed.; McClain, Aliecia R., Ed.; Jackson, Leigh Miles, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2022
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority institutions (MIs) represent a valuable resource to expand the Department of Defense's (DoD) government and extramural workforce and science and technology enterprise. The more than 400 public and private HBCUs, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions,…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Minority Serving Institutions, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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Baldwin, J. Norman; McCracken, William A., III – Journal of Education Finance, 2013
As the U.S. continues to embrace a comprehensive plan for economic recovery, this article investigates the validity of the claim that investing in higher education will help restore state economic growth and prosperity. It presents the findings from a study that indicates that the most consistent predictors of state economic growth related to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Economic Impact, Economic Progress, State Aid
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2014
"Closing the Gaps: The Texas Higher Education Plan" was adopted in October 2000 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). The goal of the "Closing the Gaps" ("CTG") plan is to close educational gaps in participation, success, excellence, and research within Texas and between Texas and other states by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Equal Education
Lounsbury, Susan; Datubo-Brown, Christiana – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2019
The SREB Fact Book on Higher Education includes data on the population and economy, enrollment, degrees, student tuition and financial aid, faculty and administrators, revenue and expenditures. With more than 100 tables of detailed information, the Fact Book is one of the nation's most respected and most comprehensive collections of comparative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geographic Regions, Adults, Academic Degrees
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Fisher, Donald; Rubenson, Kjell; Jones, Glen; Shanahan, Theresa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
A policy sociology approach is taken to examine the connections between neo-liberalism, post-secondary provincial education (PSE) policy in Canada and the impact of those policies. Our thesis regarding the broad political economy of PSE is that over the last two decades the adoption of this ideology has been a major cause of some dramatic changes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Postsecondary Education, Educational Policy
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin is a compilation of significant statistical material pertaining to American education. It contains information on a variety of subjects within the broad field of educational statistics, including schools, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, Federal programs in the field of education, libraries,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Student Financial Aid, Librarians