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Kakar, Casandra Gwen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Higher education institutions in the state of Arizona have experienced a reduction in government funding due to the economic challenges the state is facing combined with an ongoing national recession. Three higher education institutions studied are located in Phoenix, Arizona. The three higher education institutions are Phoenix College, Arizona…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, State Universities, Proprietary Schools, Entrepreneurship
Committee for Economic Development, 2012
It is not troubling, or even surprising, that the United States today faces increasing economic competition from around the world. It is easier for other nations to make up ground on the world's leader by copying more-advanced existing innovations, than it is for the leader to move forward by making new innovations. And as other nations improve…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, School Business Relationship, Educational Attainment, Competency Based Education
Fisher, Marvin – 1988
Information on research activity at Arizona's three universities (Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University) is presented as one of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness. For both faculty and students, the presence of…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency, Excellence in Education
Brophy, James – 1988
The status of Arizona's effort to encourage the creation and expansion of high technology based on the discoveries and new knowledge developed at its research universities is discussed. The study of the University of Arizona and Arizona State University was recommended by the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Competition, Economic Development, Efficiency
Fisher, Marvin – 1988
In an effort to determine what doctoral graduates of Arizona's three universities thought about the strengths, weaknesses, and overall quality of their specialized graduate programs, a 35-item questionnaire was prepared and sent to 1976 and 1986 doctoral graduates. Information on this study is presented as one of the working papers in the final…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Efficiency
Arizona Board of Regents, Phoenix. – 1988
Volume Two of a report by the Arizona Board of Regents' independent citizen commission to examine the performance of the state's three public universities presents 26 working papers in four sections. Section One, Research and Graduate Education/Universities: A State Resource, offers five papers, including: "University Research and Economic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advanced Placement, Blue Ribbon Commissions, College Administration