By Chris Nicholson. Universities widely consider the revenue behind intellectual property to be a secondary concern. But even for the noble academic, there are dollars on the table. In terms of making money from inventions, New York University does pretty well. In 2013 it earned $214 million from intellectual property (IP) created through research, primarily in the schools of medicine and engineering and in the departments of computer science and physics. More...
Proving Grounds for a New Model for Higher Education
By Zvi Galil. More than 20 million Americans are heading to campuses nationwide to commence the new academic year. They will be participating in a model of higher education that is under increasing strain.
Financially, there is the much-reported and growing mismatch between tuition, rising at a rate higher than inflation for the past 30 years, and students' challenged means of paying for it, as evidenced by the titanic volume of outstanding student debt. More...
