State Policy and the Public Research University: A Case Study of Manifest and Latent Tensions

1997 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan H. Frost ◽  
James C. Hearn ◽  
Ginger M. Marine
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Research University ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Research University

State Policy and the Public Research University

1997 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan H. Frost ◽  
James C. Hearn ◽  
Ginger M. Marine
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Research University ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Research University

A Leadership Approach for the New Millennium: A Case Study of UCLA's Bruin Leaders Project

NASPA Journal ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles L. Outcalt ◽  
Shannon K. Faris ◽  
Kathleen N. McMahon ◽  
Philip M. Tahtakran ◽  
Christopher B. Noll
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Research University ◽  
Leadership Theory ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
New Millennium

The current case study investigates the application of a non-hierarchical leadership model at an urban public research university. Following a review of recent contributions to leadership theory, especially with regard to student development, the authors balance discussions of the values on which the program under review is based with descriptions of the practical structure of the program. In addition, they suggest means by which other campuses can tailor this program to their resources, opportunities, and needs. The case study concludes with a discussion of the program’s effect on students’ cognitive and social development.

“Incentives for Managed Growth”: A Case Study of Incentives-Based Planning and Budgeting in a Large Public Research University

2006 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Hearn ◽  
Darrell R. Lewis ◽  
Lincoln Kallsen ◽  
Janet M. Holdsworth ◽  
Lisa M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Public Research University

Citizens or Cosmopolitans? Constructing Scientific Identity in the Early American College

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam R. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Public Support ◽  
National Service ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early American ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
American Research ◽  
Scientific Identity

Modern American scientific identity has its roots in the colleges of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using the botanical sciences as an example, this essay examines the conflicts between those who viewed scientists as cosmopolitan (or international) and those who viewed scientists as citizens (or servants) of the national state. Whereas today many American scientists claim a cosmopolitan identity, even as they decry steady declines in state aid, two centuries ago, they did just the opposite: to win public support, they quietly subsumed the ideals of cosmopolitanism within a commitment to national service, even as they deftly cultivated a new professional image rooted in a rhetoric of scientific internationalism. The construction of this new self-image was, I argue, a necessary precondition for the creation of the modern American research university—particularly the public research university—which sought to reconcile the competing ideals of scientific cosmopolitanism and citizenship.

"Incentives for Managed Growth": A Case Study of Incentives-Based Planning and Budgeting in a Large Public Research University

2006 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Hearn ◽  
Darrell R. Lewis ◽  
Lincoln Kallsen ◽  
Janet M. Holdsworth ◽  
Lisa M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Public Research University

scholarly journals Sponsored Research Indirect Costs: A Single-Site Case Study of Public Research University STEM Faculty Members’ Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Gossman
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Indirect Cost ◽  
Research University ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Cost Recovery ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Faculty Socialization ◽  
Political Bargaining ◽  
Public Research University

This explanatory case study investigated the phenomenon of one institution’s public research university STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) faculty members’ perspectives on indirect cost recovery from research grant funding. The explanatory scheme incorporated organizational culture, faculty socialization, and political bargaining models in the conceptual framework. The analysis indicated that faculty socialization and organizational culture were the most dominant themes; political bargaining emerged as significantly less prominent. Public research university STEM faculty are most concerned about the survival of their research programs and the discovery facilitated by their research programs; they resort to conjecture regarding the utility of indirect cost recovery. The findings direct institutional administrators to consider less emphasis on compliance and hierarchical authority and focus on greater communication and clarity in budget processes and organizational decision-making when working with expert professionals such as science faculty; for higher education researchers, the findings indicate a need for more sophisticated models to understand organizational dependency on expert professionals.

Philanthropy and the Character of the Public Research University

2016 ◽  
pp. 28-58
Author(s):  
Larry Catá Backer ◽  
Nabih Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Public University ◽  
State University ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Philanthropy ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
Faculty Input ◽  
The University

Educational scholars have examined the relationship of philanthropy and its contributions to the public university. Yet, there has been little discussion of the influence of philanthropy on the governance space of the public research university, and specifically as conditional philanthropy may affect academic integrity and shared governance. In this chapter, we consider these larger issues in the context of a study of a recent case. Drawing on public records, interviews, and university documents, the chapter examines conditional donation of The Charles G. Koch Foundation (CKF) to the Florida State University (FSU). We suggest that the Koch Foundation gift appears to illustrate a new model of governance based philanthropy. It has done so by tying donations to control or influence of the internal governing mechanics of an academic unit of a public university. This model has generated controversy. Though there was substantial faculty and student backlash, the model appears to be evidence of a new philanthropic relationship between the public university and substantial donors, one in which donors may change the nature of traditional shared governance relationships within the university. We maintain that instances of such “new” strategic philanthropy require greater focus on and sensitivity to shared governance and faculty input as a way to ensure accountability, especially to preserve the integrity of the academic enterprise and its public mission where donors seek to leverage philanthropy into choices relating to faculty hires, courses and programs traditionally at the center of faculty prerogatives in shared governance.

Violence communicates differently

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-87
Author(s):  
Kate Lockwood Harris
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Research University ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
The University

This chapter begins to conceptualize sexual violence as a series of material–discursive intra-actions. It does so by drawing upon a case study at a university regarded for having some of the most effective sexual violence policies in the United States, the pseudonymous Public Research University (PRU). An analysis of the systems for reporting rape and other assaults at PRU shows that these processes rely on representationalist frameworks that have problematic raced and gendered consequences. The reporting system allows PRU to overlook lots of violence. Moreover, marginalized members of the university do a disproportionate amount of the labor to run the system. The chapter relies on the feminist new materialist concept of diffraction to show that reports to Title IX officers are not mere descriptions of sexual violence, but the outcome of material–discursive processes. The chapter advances a material turn by using violence as a focal point for theory that is neither wholly constructivist nor wholly realist.

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