August 17, 2009

Sluggish Support for Public Universities Threatens U.S. Pre-eminence in Higher Education, Report Says

By Karin Fischer

Shaky state financial support for public research universities threatens American higher education's global standing, says a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that examines trends in scientific publications.

Since the 1980s, the growth of scientific research, as measured by scholarly papers and citations, in Europe and East Asia has outpaced that of American universities, in part because countries in those regions have dedicated significant

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