Author: A. Abigail PaynePublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Do Congressional Earmarks Increase Research Output at Universities?
Author: A. Abigail PaynePublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Do Congressional Academic Earmarks at Public Research Institutions Encourage Research Productivity?
Author: Matthew Lincoln FeldmannPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Academic earmarks identified by the U.S. Congress through attachments to funding bills have represented a sizeable and growing revenue stream to institutions of higher education, yet little has been determined about the impacts this funding has on these institutions or the products of these institutions. A study was defined to test the argument that academic earmarks provided support for institutions to build research and development (R & D) infrastructure necessary for competition with peers. The population of interest was all U.S. public research institutions, and the principal research question was whether academic earmarks provided these institutions with increased academic R & D infrastructure as indicated by changes in R & D expenditures between 1993 and 2002. Structural equation path analysis was used to test the relationships among institutional control variables, total academic earmarks received, change in R & D expenditures, and institutional peer rankings over ten years. The study demonstrated evidence that the practice of congressional academic earmarking at public research institutions did not have an effect on change in R & D expenditures or an effect on peer rankings. Three institutional control variables (EPSCoR affiliation, institutional ranking, and presence of an accredited engineering program) were found to be significant predictors of academic earmarks, accounting for 39% of the variable's variance.
Conflicts Between the Federal Research Programs and the Nation's Goals for Higher Education
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Research and Technical Programs SubcommitteePublisher:
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Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Academic Earmarks
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyPublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Does Federal Research Funding Increase University Research Output?
Author: A. Abigail PaynePublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to higher education
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Science and the University
Author: Paula E. StephanPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299224805
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Science and the University investigates the tremendous changes that have taken place in university research over the past several decades, gauging the current state of research in higher education and examining issues and challenges crucial to its future. Scientific research increasingly dominates the aims and agendas of many American universities, and this proliferation—and changes in the way research is conducted—has given rise to important questions about the interrelations of higher education, funding for scientific research, and government policy. The cost of doing science, the commercialization of university research, the changing composition and number of Ph.D. students, the effect of scientific research on other university programs—these are just a few of the many issues explored in this volume from the vantage points of scholars in such diverse fields as economics, biochemistry, genetics, and labor studies.
Funding Science in America
Author: James D. SavagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794619
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Since the 1950s, the federal government has relied on the peer review system for funding academic science. Peer review, however, is under attack for being a biased system that helps rich research universities get richer. As a remedy for these biases, university presidents and members of Congress have turned to the earmarking of science projects and facilities in the federal budget. Funding Science in America explores both the pros and the cons of the academic earmarking issue and explains why this issue has caused a rift within the nation's science community.
Improving the Research Infrastructure at U.S. Universities and Colleges
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and TechnologyPublisher:
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Category : College facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Pig Book
Author: Citizens Against Government WastePublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 146685314X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
CQ Researcher Bound Volume 2006
Author: Cq PressPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 9780872895447
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Packaged in a sturdy and sound cloth edition, the CQ Researcher Bound Volume 2006 includes all 44 cutting-edge CQ Researcher reports published in 2006. Engaging, insightful reports cover topics including: Avian Flu Threat Caring for the Elderly Climate Change Coal Mining Safety Drinking on Campus Ecotourism Eating Disorders Energy Efficiency Future of Feminism Middle East Tensions Nuclear Energy Pension Crisis Port Security Presidential Power Rebuilding New Orleans Rising Health Costs Sex Offenders Stem Cell Research Treatment of Detainees War on Drugs NOTE: CQ Researcher subscribers receive a $100 discount off the regular price.