Prestige as the Highest Ambition: Emerging Research Universities and the National Research University Fund
Description:
In 2009 the Texas legislature created the National Research University Fund (NRUF), intended to encourage a select group of public doctoral universities in the state, known as emerging research universities (ERUs), to increase their institutional status related to academic research by awarding supplemental financial support for meeting specific policy metrics. Efforts to increase the research status of these universities occurred at a time when public financial support remained stagnate and ove…
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Date:
May 2021
Creator:
Ryan, Sean Alan