Professors of Practice and the Entrepreneurial University

Abstract

cation in all of their many types translates into wide societal support for the costs of super research universities, even if only a small proportion of Americans attend one of the highly selective research institutions.The super research university model is an expensive one to pursue, requiring a wealthy society.Private money now makes up substantial funding in the United States.Many super research universities are privately controlled.While these factors certainly have enhanced the development of the super research university model, they are not its root cause.Instead, the origin of the super research university is related to how American society has generated widespread societal support for higher education, and included in this are elite research universities.In other words, formal education in the United States has been an early leader in the movement toward mass higher education and all the factors that such an idea includes.Instead of assuming that mass access to higher education and the model of the super research university are mutually exclusive zero-sum forces, what the American case illustrates is that in reality these two trends support one another.

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