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Murphy, Dianna, Ed.; Evans-Romaine, Karen, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2016
A number of reports in the US have highlighted the country's need for improved second language skills for both national security and economic competitiveness. The Language Flagship program, launched in 2002, aims to raise expectations regarding language proficiency levels at the post-secondary level and to address structural gaps in the curricula…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Second Language Programs, Program Descriptions
Arrison, Tom, Ed.; Olson, Steve, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
In October 2005, the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine released a policy report that served as a call to action. The report, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future" observed that "the scientific and technological building blocks…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Innovation, Science Education, Engineering
National Academies Press, 2009
Constituting one-third of all U.S. institutions of higher education, emerging research institutions (ERIs) are crucial to sustaining the nation's technological competitiveness through innovation and workforce development. Many, however, are not fully engaged in sustained sponsored research. This book summarizes the discussions at a workshop…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Barriers, Federal Programs, Capacity Building
Didion, Catherine; Fortenberry, Norman L.; Cady, Elizabeth – National Academies Press, 2012
On August 8-12, 2010 the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), convened the Colloquy on Minority Males in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), following the release of several reports highlighting the educational challenges facing minority males. The NSF recognized the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Males, Minority Group Students, Federal Programs
National Academies Press, 2012
"Research Universities and the Future of America" presents critically important strategies for ensuring that our nation's research universities contribute strongly to America's prosperity, security, and national goals. Widely considered the best in the world, our nation's research universities today confront significant financial…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Technology Transfer, Private Financial Support, Student Diversity
Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
There are now nearly four million children born in the United States who have undocumented immigrant parents. In the current debates around immigration reform, policymakers often view immigrants as an economic or labor market problem to be solved, but the issue has a very real human dimension. Immigrant parents without legal status are raising…
Descriptors: Community Services, Low Income, Labor Legislation, Labor Market
National Academies Press, 2009
In 1998, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a program of Grants for Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences (VIGRE). These grants were designed for institutions with PhD-granting departments in the mathematical sciences, for the purpose of developing high-quality education programs, at all levels,…
Descriptors: Sciences, Grants, Federal Programs, Program Evaluation
National Academies Press, 2010
"Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty" presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-time, tenure-track, and tenured faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at the nation's top research universities. Much of this…
Descriptors: Productivity, Tenure, Gender Differences, Research Universities
Lansiquot, Reneta D. – IGI Global, 2013
Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Organizational Change, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Borman, Kathryn M., Ed.; Tyson, Will, Ed.; Halperin, Rhoda H., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Based on research conducted in a three-year, mixed-method, multi-site National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) Project, this book offers a comprehensive look into how engineering department culture and climate impacts the successful retention of female and under-represented…
Descriptors: Universities, Engineering Education, Minority Group Students, Urban Education
O'Connell, Mary Ellen, Ed.; Norwood, Janet L., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2007
"International Education and Foreign Languages" reviews the Department of Education's Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs, which provide higher education funding for international education and foreign language programs. This book offers a timely look at issues that are increasingly important in an interconnected world. It discusses the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Federal Government, Government Role, International Education
Glezerman, David R.; DeSantis, Dennis – National Association of College and University Business Officers (NJ3), 2008
This handy desk reference will help readers and their institutions develop and maintain a professional environment that will maximize efficiencies and provide the necessary skills to properly manage operations and portfolios while ensuring that students receive fair and equitable service and opportunities. Written for business officers, financial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Accounting, Educational Finance, School Administration
National Academies Press, 2005
This report provides an assessment of NIH's programs for increasing the participation in biomedical science of individuals from underrepresented minority groups. The report examines, using available data and the results of a survey of NIH trainees, the characteristics and outcomes of programs at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Minority Groups, Trainees, Program Evaluation
Mattis, Mary C., Ed.; Sislin, John, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2005
Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road to engineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-year educational institutions to continue their education. "Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers," a new book from the National Academy of Engineering and the…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Engineering Education, Engineering, Community Colleges