Ehrenberg co-edits book on Science and the University
September 22 2007
Book is called a "penetrating analysis…of scientific research and higher education in America."
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute at Cornell University, and Paula E. Stephan, professor of economics at Georgia State University, have co-edited a book stemming from the CHERI conference, "Sciences and the University," which was held in May 2003.
Science and the University investigates the tremendous changes that have taken place in university research over the past several decades, gauging the current state of research in higher education and examining issues and challenges crucial to its future.
The following is an excerpt from the publisher, the University of Wisconsin Press.
A penetrating analysis of the intertwining present and future of scientific research and higher education in America.
Scientific research increasingly dominates the aims and agendas of many American universities, and this proliferation—and changes in the way research is conducted—has given rise to important questions about the interrelations of higher education, funding for scientific research, and government policy. The cost of doing science, the commercialization of university research, the changing composition and number of Ph.D. students, the effect of scientific research on other university programs—these are just a few of the many issues explored in this volume from the vantage points of scholars in such diverse fields as economics, biochemistry, genetics, and labor studies.
Review
"The university — a central institution in the emerging knowledge economy — is in the process of dramatic transformations. In this volume, Paula Stephan and Ronald Ehrenberg bring together scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address some of the most crucial changes underway in universities today. Grappling with matters ranging from how universities are funding their scientific research in an era of government belt-tightening to what roles universities can and should play in the commercial economy, the essays in this collection are important reading for anyone who cares about the future of higher education in the United States."
— Daniel Lee Kleinman
University of Wisconsin-Madison, series editor and author of Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce
