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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2024
This is the technical appendix for the report "From Insights to Impact: Fostering Innovation through Texas" which examines the current national landscape of higher education research and development to help gauge Texas' current position and identify opportunities to drive further innovations into the future. This appendix includes the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Innovation, Research and Development, Technology
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2023
Higher education institutions play an essential role in Texas' global economic competitiveness. They provide the talent and innovation that gives the state its competitive edge. The COVID-19 vaccine, ethernet, plasma screens, and e-readers are just a few of the thousands of ideas that were born out of U.S. universities. These innovations have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Innovation, Research and Development, School Business Relationship
Hu, Xiaodan; Ortagus, Justin C.; Voorhees, Nicholas; Rosinger, Kelly; Kelchen, Robert – AERA Open, 2022
Performance-based funding (PBF) policies with research incentives have grown in popularity over the years despite little understanding regarding whether they actually work. This study leverages a novel national data set to examine the impact of PBF research incentives on the research expenditures and total state appropriations among public 4-year…
Descriptors: Financial Support, State Aid, Accountability, Educational Finance
Hillman, Nick – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2020
The debate about value for money in higher education reflects an unclear understanding of how and why universities do what they do. The issue of income cross-flows is central to this debate. This report shows the defining features of universities are interdependent. In particular, university research loses so much money that it cannot currently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Research and Development, Educational Finance
Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2021
In a state where most higher education institutions are working to address financial and enrollment challenges, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) faces some of the greatest difficulties of all. UWM's steep enrollment drop has exacerbated the effects of an eight-year tuition freeze and lagging state funding, forcing cuts to faculty,…
Descriptors: State Universities, Research Universities, Educational Finance, Tuition
Stein, Jason; Shayan, Muhammad – Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2021
As the largest university in the state's biggest city, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) plays a crucial role in providing higher education to disadvantaged students. It also serves as the third-largest research institution in the state, behind only UW-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin. In 2013, an estimated $1.5 billion in…
Descriptors: State Universities, Research Universities, Educational Finance, Tuition
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Tang, Tao; Aldhaeebi, Maged A.; Lan, J. Q.; Bamanger, Ebrahim – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
In this study, a comparison of the graduate education program between Canada and China is presented. Compared with some developed countries in Europe and America, Canada's graduate education does not start too early. After World War II, especially in recent decades, its graduate education has developed rapidly. The reason is that under the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Cultural Differences, Educational History
Flores, Stella M.; Prescott, Brian T.; Hillman, Nicholas; Sponsler, Brian; Saenz, Victor; Zaback, Katie; Paulson, Karen; Baker, Dominique; Drake, Anna – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2016
Challenges to closing the gap between findings from academic research and effective policymaking are not new, and they will not be solved overnight. However, as the entire education sector faces mounting pressure to provide high-quality education under tightening fiscal constraints, all while demonstrating improving student outcomes, the time may…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Coleman, Mary Sue – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
The partnership between the government and American research universities lies at the heart of the U.S. scientific and higher educational enterprise. This unique and historic partnership has advanced human health, enhanced national security, and produced human capital that has fueled technological innovation and economic growth, created entire new…
Descriptors: Government School Relationship, Research Universities, Federal Government, State Government
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Saad, Mohammed; Guermat, Cherif; Brodie, Lisa – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper investigates the role of the higher education system (HES) in the production of national innovation. We focus on the issue of institutional diversity of HESs and its impact on national innovation systems. We identify four key HES characteristics and hypothesize their influence on the production of national innovation. The empirical…
Descriptors: Innovation, Higher Education, Correlation, Research and Development
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2017
Nebraska is committed to measuring its progress toward achieving the major statewide goals through national comparisons and institutional peer comparisons. It is the aim of the "Comprehensive Plan" that, when rank order is appropriate, Nebraska will rank among the ten best states in national comparisons, and individual public…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Undergraduate Students, Enrollment
Frohlich, Ellen – Group of Eight (NJ1), 2012
As described in "Go8 Backgrounder 24: Answering the Global Challenge--Experiences from European Excellence Initiatives," Germany began a debate about how to strengthen its position as an excellent location for science and research in 2004. This debate focussed in particular on the competitiveness of the country's universities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Government, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Universities UK, 2016
This report provides a snapshot of statistics from academic year 2014-15 related to students at UK higher education institutions and the income and expenditure of these institutions. The statistics reviewed include universities' research activity, student employability, and information on international students and staff. Highlights include: (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, College Applicants
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Walters, Garrison – Liberal Education, 2012
The completion agenda (also referred to as the "reform" movement) is focused mainly on state policy leaders, governors, legislators, and boards of higher education. Complete College America (CCA), a national nonprofit organization established in 2009 to increase educational attainment in the United States, is the standard bearer of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Educational Attainment, Educational Change
Grabert, Martin – Group of Eight (NJ1), 2011
There is now a great deal of experience across different countries as they act in their own ways to improve the productivity and excellence of their higher education institutions. Each nation wants to create an international reputation for excellence that will attract students, academic staff and business. This involves change at the national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Organizational Change, Educational Innovation
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