Science and the University

by Paula E. Stephan (Editor), Ronald G. Ehrenberg (Editor)

Overview

Science and the University investigates the tremendous changes that have taken place in university research over the past several decades, gauging the current state of research in higher education and examining issues and challenges crucial to its future. Scientific research increasingly dominates the aims and agendas of many American universities, and this proliferation—and changes in the way research is conducted—has given rise to important questions about the interrelations of higher education, funding for scientific research, and government policy. The cost of doing science, the commercialization of university research, the changing composition and number of Ph.D. students, the effect of scientific research on other university programs—these are just a few of the many issues explored in this volume from the vantage points of scholars in such diverse fields as economics, biochemistry, genetics, and labor studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299224837
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	11/20/2007
Series:	Science and Technology in Society
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Paula E. Stephan is professor of economics at Georgia State University and coeditor of the two-volume Economics of Science and Innovation. Ronald G. Ehrenberg is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute at Cornell University and editor of What’s Happening to Public Higher Education.

Table of Contents

<new recto> Contents Preface 000 Introduction: Science and the University 000 Paula E. Stephan and Ronald G. Ehrenberg Financing Science and Engineering Research 1. Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities? 000 Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael J. Rizzo and George H. Jakubson 2. How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks 000 John M. de Figueiredo and Brian S. Silverman The Commercialization of Science 3. University Science Research Funding: Privatizing Policy and Practice 000 Risa L. Lieberwitz 4. Patterns of Research and Licensing Activity of Science and Engineering Faculty 000 Jerry G. Thursby and Marie C. Thursby 5. Commericalization and the Scientific Research Process: The Example of Plant Breeding 000 W. Ronnie Coffman, William H. Lesser and Susan R. McCouch Foreign Students and Scholars 6. The Importance of Foreign Ph.D. Students to U.S. Science 000 Grant G. Black and Paula E. Stephan 7. Do Foreign Students Crowd Out Native Students from Graduate Programs? 000 George J. Borjas 8. Foreign Scholars in U.S. Science: Contributions and Costs 000 Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin American Citizen PhDs in Science and Engineering 9. The Changing Composition of American Citizen PhDs 000 Jeffrey A. Groen and Michael J. Rizzo 10. Where Do New US-Trained Science Engineering PhDs Come From? 000 Richard B. Freeman, Emily Jin, and Chia-Yu Shen The Changing Competitiveness of U.S. Science and the Organization of Academic Science 11. Global Research Competition Affects U.S. Output 000 Diana M. Hicks 12. The Workforce for Biomedical Research-Who Will Do the Work? 000 Susan A Gerbi and Howard Garrison Concluding Remarks Looking to the Future 000 Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Paula E. Stephan <LINE SPACE> References 000 Contributors 000 Index 000

Editorial Reviews

The university—a central institution in the emerging knowledge economy—is in the process of dramatic transformations. In this volume, Paula Stephan and Ronald Ehrenberg bring together scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address some of the most crucial changes underway in universities today. Grappling with matters ranging from how universities are funding their scientific research in an era of government belt-tightening to what roles universities can and should play in the commercial economy, the essays in this collection are important reading for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in the United States.”—Daniel Lee Kleinman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, series editor and author of Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce

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