Sluggish Support for Public Universities Threatens U.S. Pre-eminence in Higher Education
Shaky state financial support for public research universities threatens American higher education’s global standing, says a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that examines trends in scientific publications. Since the 1980s, the growth of scientific research, as measured by scholarly papers and citations, in Europe and East Asia has outpaced that of American universities, in part because countries in those regions have dedicated significant resources to higher education. The American share of world scientific citations, for example, dropped from 52 percent in 1992 to 42 percent in 2003.
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by Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education.