Articles tagged: innovation

Research Universities Power U.S. Innovation and Prosperity

By Phyllis Wise, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

If you use a GPS device, a mouse, or a microwave oven, take antibiotics, have an eye implant, or are reading this on a tablet, you can thank America’s research universities.

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Fault Lines in the Compact: Higher Education and the Public Interest of the United States

By Ronald J. Daniels, President, Johns Hopkins University;
Phillip M. Spector, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Johns Hopkins University;
Rebecca Goetz, Research Assistant

The relationship between government and the university in the United States is, in the minds of many commentators, fraught.

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