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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
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Woodhouse, Ros; Dence, Carole – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2009
This paper builds on an inquiry process initiated during a session at the 2008 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education conference. The goal was to promote scholarly research on teaching, learning, and educational development in Canadian post-secondary institutions by identifying and prioritizing research issues, and emerging…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Research and Development, Educational Research, Instructional Improvement
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1986
A regional workshop on "The Study of Secondary Education in Asia and the Pacific" was attended by 18 participants from Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Western Samoa. The major objective of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Hom, Willard C. – 2003
This paper discusses the seven types of research tools that have potential for advancing knowledge about student services in California Community Colleges. The seven tools are the following: literature review, data validation, survey research, case study, quasi experiment, meta analysis, and statistical modeling. The report gives reasons why each…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Development, Research, Research and Development
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Wyngaarden, James B. – Science, 1987
Provides a summary of some of the recent activities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from the perspective of the current director. Emphasizes making NIH better known to the American people and presenting the attractions of the many roles in health-related research to young people formulating career plans. (TW)
Descriptors: Biomedicine, College Science, Federal Aid, Federal Government
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McCullough, James – Higher Education, 1994
The National Science Foundation practice of using scientifically qualified program directors, some from university laboratories, to make grant-giving recommendations independent of external peer reviewers is compared with the practice of other agencies. A recent policy of allowing program directors to make some small grants without external peer…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role, Agency Role, Decision Making