Topic: Funding
Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, Intellectual property, International issues, Public policy, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Disentangling university research policies
G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney (editors). Research and Innovation Policy: Changing Federal Government – University Relations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. David D. Dill and Frans A. Van Vught (editors). National Innovation and the Academic Research Enterprise: Public Policy in Global Perspective. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
READ MORE
Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Tuition and student fees, Universities and the academic mission
The greater good of higher education
A review of Walter W. McMahon, Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
READ MORE
Corporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Public policy, Students, Universities and the academic mission
Definitely not for loss
Mission and Money: Understanding the University, by Burton A. Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, and Evelyn D. Asch. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
READ MORECorporatization and commercialization, Funding, International issues, Politics, Public policy, Universities and the academic mission
Making decisions that endure for decades
Paulo Santiago, Karine Tremblay, Ester Basri and Elena Arnal. Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society. Volume 1: Special Features: Governance, Funding, Quality; and Volume 2: Special Features: Equity, Innovation, Labour Market, Internationalisation. Paris: OECD, 2008. 728 pages.
READ MORE
Bottled up or tapped out: Where have all the water fountains gone?
Water fountains are disappearing on university campuses. Richard Girard and Erika Shaker trace how this is yet another example of the way commercialization and privatization realigns and redefines priorities in our universities.
READ MORE
