Islamist-Secular Cleavages at Tunisia ́s Universities

Efficiency and Technological Change at U . S . Research Universities

This paper investigates the determinants of efficiency and technological progress at US research universities. It relies on a unique panel data set of multiple outputs and inputs from 92 universities covering the period 1981-1998. Over that time span, US universities experienced large increases in industry funding and in academic patenting activity. In this context, the directional distance fun...

American universities at risk.

In the spring of 1996, I was the Rolf Sammet Guest Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main in Germany. One afternoon, I accompanied one of the chemistry department s professors to a part of the city of Frankfurt called Sachsenhausen to enjoy Ebbelwoi, a German hard cider. As we sat in the sun, relaxing, the conversation turned to a comparison between life in Americ...

Laden and Islamist Terrorism

What ’ S Happening to Our Universities ?

In recent decades, many universities have been moving in the direction of a more hierarchical and centralised structure, with top-down planning and reduced local autonomy for departments. Yet the management literature over this period has stressed the numerous benefits of flatter organisational structures, decentralisation and local autonomy for sections or departments. What might explain this ...

‘ Interdisciplinary strategies ’ in U . S . research universities

In the context of increasing support for interdisciplinary modes of research, many in the policy, scientific, and academic communities propose that universities should change structurally to reduce the barriers to investigation that involves researchers from multiple disciplines. This paper examines ‘interdisciplinary strategies’ in U.S. research universities—deliberate efforts to spur collabor...