three key elements of scholarly activity (research, publication, education), it suggests a functional perspective of the … understanding of the different rationales in research, publication, and education. Acknowledging these differences might enable …

Education under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation. The Commission was to be a national effort, unprecedented both in … scope and in the freedom of its director, Kerr, to guide its research and productivity. Carnegie President Alan Pifer … education in the latter part of the twentieth century. This essay reviews the origins of the Commission, its successor …

"business models" for higher education: the public research university model is based on high volume of enrollments and low cost …Many leaders of public research universities worry about falling behind private research universities at a time when … private university finances have improved dramatically and state support for higher education has declined. In this paper, I …

-term trends that will prevent state investment in higher education from rebounding to prior levels. States and universities are … reforms change financial and/or governance parameters to create different incentives, which focus on performance, outcomes … conditions create both a challenge and an opportunity for statewide higher education systems to re-define their missions and …

This paper reviews the new directions in institutional research on undergraduate racial/ethnic and socioeconomic … more detailed and extensive analysis of student diversity. Included is research on an expanded number of racial … used to development a more comprehensive parental education and immigrant generation diversity (EID) typology that is then …