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Direct linkBruce, Peter A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The availability of online education in universities and colleges across the nation has significantly increased during the past decade. The increase has been due in part to recent federal policy changes authorizing access to financial aid for online higher education students. The dramatic growth in the number of students taking online courses and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Accreditation (Institutions), Surveys
Jensen, Richard; Thursby, Jerry; Thursby, Marie C. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
This paper presents a theoretical model of faculty consulting in the context of government and industry funding for research within the university, which then frames an empirical analysis of the funding and consulting of 458 individual faculty inventors from 8 major US universities. In the theory, firms realize that they free ride on government…
Descriptors: Research, Higher Education, Research Projects, Financial Support
Coleman, Toni; Matthews, Joan – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
Historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs) have long struggled to compete with traditionally White institutions (TWIs) when it comes to breakthrough research. Of the 908 U.S. institutions that received National Science Foundation research funding in fiscal year 2005, only 72 were historically Black, and they took in $294.2 million in…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Competition, Research, Research Proposals
Download full textResearch Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, 2009
The Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) in Hiroshima University started a program of research on the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) in 2005. This research is funded by the Ministry of Education and Science as a grant-in-aid for scientific research headed by Professor Akira Arimoto, Director of the Research Institute for Higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Biographies
Peer reviewedMoses, Ingrid – Higher Education, 1987
The institutionalization of faculty development policy and activities is compared for Australia, Great Britain, the United States, West Germany, and Sweden. The factors that precipitated the trend in each country are examined, and it is concluded that the reward systems in each country favor faculty research performance over teaching. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Toombs, William – 1983
Characteristics of U.S. higher education are identified, along with the structural features that influence the nature of research, specific research topics, and the locations of research activities. This information was obtained from several sources, including the Educational Resources Information Center database for the years 1981 and 1982, the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Faculty, College Programs, College Students
