ConnCAN's Spend Smart: "Fix Our Broken School Funding System" was released concurrently with a bill introduced in the Connecticut legislature, based on the principles outlined in the report. However, the report is of negligible value to the policy debate over Connecticut school finance because it provides little or no support for any of…

This study examines what specific data college faculty and administrators use in their jobs and the extent to which they use data analysis to design and improve the impact of programs and services. The study is based on a survey on the use of student data by faculty and administrators at 41 community colleges participating in Achieving the Dream:…

The author presents an investigation of patent-application filings made without external financial support, or "at-risk", based on inventions disclosed to the University of California from fiscal years 1991 to 2000. The success of the at-risk patent applications filed on these invention disclosures is examined from the perspective of…

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has created a profitable program for commercializing student and faculty research, investing with three venture-capital companies that agreed to pay extra attention to the university's technological innovations and developing an office park to promote local economic development and generate…

The benefits of faculty consulting to the consultant, to the organization receiving the consulting, and to the university are discussed in this speech. The first benefit is that consulting supplements faculty income. It is argued that this enables a university to retain people they might not otherwise be able to afford. It is also pointed out that…

This case study, one in a series of research efforts designed to examine the utilization of the Administration on Aging's research, describes the different types of uses of findings of the Home Equity Conversion Project (HECP), which developed ways of converting home equity into usable income. The first chapter describes the project and overviews…

Consulting by faculty members is seen as highly beneficial to the organization and the university, as well as to the consultant. Not only does consulting benefit faculty incomes, but it also aids in (1) technological currency, (2) technology transfer, and (3) research inspiration. (MLW)

Issues pertaining to equity rights to intellectual property and policy concerns of colleges are discussed. The following factors need to be addressed: the extent to which the intellectual property is created and/or reduced to practice during time paid for by the institution; the extent of use and value of facilities provided by the institution and…

Because of the decline of farm population and family farms, the increase in energy-intensivity, and concentration process in agriculture, a rising tide of criticism has focused on the land grant system and its role in encouraging scientific applications supporting these trends. A study was conducted to develop a strategy that would change…

Characteristics of the arts public, the quality and impact of arts audience research, and factors affecting research utilization are reported. Data were obtained from research literature searches and from over 600 questionnaire responses from museums, performing arts institutions, arts councils, and other organizations; directors of 86 recent…