I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from faculty and applications from students for fellowships...

National research systems face an increasingly competitive environment for ideas, talent and funds, and governments have shifted funds from institutional core funding to project funding, often on a competitive basis, or reward success in raising third-party funds in performance-based funding...

I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from faculty and applications from students for fellowships...

American higher education / John W. Sommer -- The evolution of American higher education / Roger E. Meiners -- In service to the state / Joel H. Spring -- Federal student aid / C. Ronald Kimberling -- Higher education, the individual, and the humane sciences / Antony Flew -- The economics of...