Challenges Of And Opportunities In Funding Model For Public Research Universities

At a time when public discussion of higher education has focused on a perceived growth in non-academic expenditures, public research universities continue to devote most of their resources to their core activities: teaching and research. Despite this prioritization, as states have continued to reduce their contributions to public research universities, tuition is now the principal revenue source for many of these institutions.
These are some of the findings from Public Research Universities: Understanding the Financial Model, a new publication released today from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An initiative of the American Academy, The Lincoln Project: Excellence and Access in Public Higher Education is studying the importance of public research universities, analyzing economic trends affecting their operations, and recommending new strategies to sustain these critical institutions. More...