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Precipice or Crossroads? Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century
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Fogel, Daniel Mark, Ed.; Malson-Huddle, Elizabeth, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2012
President Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-grant Act in 1862, launching a nationwide project in public higher education that would build democracy, prosperity, and competitiveness to levels undreamed of 150 years ago. As student costs skyrocket, driven by steep drops in public funding, the viability of that project, like the nation itself, is under…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Research Universities, Democracy
Technology Transfer and the University.
Matkin, Gary W. – 1990
The commercialization of university research and the growing importance of technology transfer is examined through discussing and comparing the history of technology transfer and its organization in four major American research universities: University of California, Berkley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stanford University; and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Role, Economic Development, Higher Education
The Underdevelopment and Modernization of the Third World. Commission on College Geography. Resource Paper No. 28.
de Souza, Anthony R.; Porter, Philip W. – 1974
Helping undergraduate college geography students understand the processes and forces which, in the name of modernization, continue to intensify a world spatial disequilibrium in the relations of people and resources is the purpose of this resource paper. It presents current ideas in social science research on modernization and development with…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development