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The business model of American research universities

Ever since I graduated high school, I’ve been associated with one or another research university, either as a student, a postdoc or a faculty. And during nearly all of that time, I was engaged in some form of research. William Rouse wrote a book in 2016 entitled “Universities as Complex Enterprises: How Academia Works, Why […]