A Meager Defense of the Humanities
A report on the humanities and social sciences fails to give a persuasive case for federal support.
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“research”
A Common-Sense Look at UNC Faculty Workloads
This paper measures the teaching loads of faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system.
University Incorporated
The lure of financial gains from patented research is causing major changes to academia.
Are Research and Teaching Friends or Foes?
Four distinguished economists discuss the trade-offs between higher education’s two main missions.
Oops! Congressional “mistake” prompts NIH review
A mistake by a Congressional staff member ignited a review of research projects approved by the National Institutes of Health. But despite what U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) called “scientific McCarthyism,” it turned out Congress had not declared war on the NIH approval process.