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.
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