Changing u.fiiversities into viltU;~ universities of the new millennium represents a methodological challenge. Traditional universities are conservative institutions not used to s~ch radical change. Successful change thus presupposes a prof~und understanding of both the traditional and the virtual university culture, and an appropriate method for implementing change must then be selected. ~ or~...

Universities are a key institution in the US innovation system and an important aspect of their involvement is the role they play in Private-Public Partnering activities. This study seeks to gain a better understanding of the performance of university-industry research partnerships using a sample survey of pre-commercial research projects funded the U.S. government's Advanced Technology Program...

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia and a fellow at both the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Columbia University, and New York University. Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph....

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Today’s public universities are increasingly becoming like enterprising nonprofits. Partly because of financial reasons, they are turning to the private sector to boost or replace their traditional—predominantly public—sources of funding. University-industry alliances in research and development (R&D) are the result of deliberate strategies implemented by national and international (e.g., EU) g...

By almost any measure, U.S. research universities are consistently ranked among the best in the world. Beginning with the Morrill Act (Land Grant College Act) of 1862, federal and state policies have underscored the nation's commitment to building the finest research institutions. As such, U.S. universities have been the incubators of the nation's prosperity. E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Compan...

Summarizing the incomplete results of the UNESCO Programme on ‘Good Practice in Promoting Gender Equality in Higher Education’, the author asks that any assessment of the progress made in the area of gender-sensitive education take regional specificities into account. The regional environment is at best neutral and usually hostile to feminism in subtle ways. In spite of the lack of tradition an...

Family Bonding with Universities One justification offered for legacy admissions policies at universities is that that they bind entire families to the university. Proponents maintain that these policies have a number of benefits, including increased donations from members of these families. We use a rich set of data from an anonymous selective research institution to investigate which types of...