- 1. USA universities as research centers: features &
opportunities Anna Bakinovskaia Nadezhda Cherepan 2011
2. Concept of modern university:
- Elite university + Research university
3. Features of modern research universities:
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- multifunctionality: generation+ knowledge transfer;
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- focus onresearch and development;
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- high professional level of academic staff;
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- integrationinto the international systemof science;
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- acceptance tointernationalexperience andflexibilityinthe new
directionsof research andteaching methods;
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- specialintellectual environment;
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- democratic valuesand academic freedom;
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- leading positionsin a givenregion, country andthe world's
scientificand educational community
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- focus onmodern trendsandinnovations in economy, science and
technology.
4. Role of research universities:
- Universities as knowledge creators
- indispensable players in the advancement of
scientificknowledge, which seeds new generations of applied
research, scientific breakthroughs and streams of new products
thatstrengthen economy.
- Universities, Entrepreneurs and Competitive Businesses
- Innovation centers around 3ingredients: knowledge creators,
knowledge, and knowledge diffusion andapplication.
- At the Forefront of Job Training and Re-skilling
- Extension programs offer accessible means to continually
- upgrade skills, acquire industry-specific applied skills and
learn new knowledgeand skills for moving into better jobs or new
careers.
5. AmericanResearch Environment
- In the dynamic economy of our time, nations in search of global
significance have fastened on the notion that scientific knowledge
is one of if not the key differentiator between those nations that
dominate world trade and take a leadership in global affairs and
those relegated to second tier status. Science and scientific
knowledge, produced by major research universities, appear in this
narrative as the magical touchstones of progress, prosperity, and
power. The nations with strong competitive science-based
universities have the ability to create the future in their own
image.
- In the United States, the federal government provides a wide
range of subsidies to educational institutions and imposes a
variety of regulations in addition to those imposed by the states.
As a result, the context for any individual public university will
vary significantly from the context of another. Although the
national government does not control the operation of universities
in the United States, it creates the primary marketplace for
research competition. Significant investment by federal research
agencies creates a pool of funds in support of research that public
and private university researchers compete for.
- Elizabeth D. Capaldi John V. Lombardi Craig W. Abbey Diane D.
Craig. (2010) The Top American Universities. 2010 Annual Report.
The Center for Measuring University Performance. Arizona State
University
6. Top American research universities in 2010
- Annual Report from 2004 establishes measurements
- criteria for evoluation of research activities of universities
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- The Top American Research University annual reports
- serve to help universities understand the context within
- which high performing research universities function
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- University of Pennsylvania
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- University of California - Berkeley
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- University of California - Los Angeles
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- University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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- University of Washington - Seattle
7. Columbia University
- For more than 250 years, Columbia has been a leader in
- higher education in the nation and around the world. At the
core of our wide range of academic inquiry is the commitment to
attract and engage the best minds in pursuit of greater human
understanding, pioneering new discoveries and service to society .
Research centers: Government and Community Affairs, Medical Center,
Government and Community Affairs, Morningside, ColumbiaTechnology
Ventures, Research Computing Services, Sponsored Projects Finance,
University Development and Alumni Relations
8. Massachusetts Instituteof Technology
- Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the
worlds most daunting challenges. From addressing theenergy needsof
tomorrow to improvingcancer therapies , MITs research efforts are
enhanced throughcreative collaborationswith leading research
institutes and consortia around the world. Compiled here are just
some of the MIT labs, centers and programs where cutting-edge
research is taking place.Research opportunities:42 research center
in different domains.
9. Stanford University
- From Nobel Prize winners to undergraduates, all members of the
Stanford community are engaged in creating new knowledge, whether
in the sciences, business, the arts or wherever their interests
lie. Stanford is particularly noted for its openness to
multidisciplinary research, not only within its schools and
departments, but also in its laboratories, institutes, libraries
and research centers.
- web:http://www.stanford.edu
10. University of Pennsylvania
- Penn is one of the world's most powerful research and teaching
institutions, with a research budget last year topping $800 million
and more than 4,000 active faculty members. The scale and
interdisciplinary character of research and teaching sets Penn
apart, and our highly rankedPerelman School of Medicineis one of
the top recipients of NIH funding in the country. Penn is one of
the nation's premier research universities with more than $700
million in annual R&D expenditures. A broad multidisciplinary
approach creates faculty-student collaborations across Penn's 12
schools. Penn has more then200 research centers.
11. Harvard University
- The range of research activities at Harvard is broad
- and deep. Harvard scholars conduct in research in almost
- every field, and seek to expand human knowledge through
- analysis, innovation, and insight. Research is supported
by
- more than $750 million of sponsored research funds each year,
and it is carried out both in the departments of the thirteen
Schools and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and at more
than 100 research centers, on campus and around the world.
Researchers include faculty members, visiting scholars.
post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students, and
they collaborate with colleagues across the University, at
affiliated institutions, and at other research institutions.
12. Yale University
- Yale is one of the worlds great universities.
- Yale is one of the best known research universities.
- The University contains more then 80 research
- centers in different domains.
13. Duke University
- 10 schools and 8 institutes
- Throughout the school's history, Duke researchers
- have made breakthroughs, including the biomedical
- engineering departments development of the world's first
- real-time, three-dimensional ultrasound diagnostic system and
the first engineered blood vessels. Duke has pioneered studies
involving nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and complex systems in
physics. In May 2006 Duke researchers mapped the final human
chromosome, which made world news as theHuman Genome Projectwas
finally complete.
14. University of California:
- over 1,600,000 living alumni.
- Has a longtradition of involvement
- in many enterprises that are often geographically or
- organizationally separate from its general campuses,
- including national laboratories, observatories, hospitals,
- continuing education programs, hotels, conference
- centers,an airport, and an art institute.
- This map shows the locations of the ten UC campuses and the
national laboratories
- associated with UC. A third national laboratory associated
- with UC is in Los Alamos, New Mexico .
- web:http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/
15. University of Michigan
- The University of Michigan is a global leader in
- health, law and public policy, the arts and
- humanities, science and technology, and many other academic
disciplines. Research is central to the Universitys mission and
permeates its schools and colleges. The disciplinary reach of the
Universitys research programs is exceptional. Research is conducted
within the nineteen academic schools and colleges.
16. University of Washington
- The University of Washington has received more
- than $1 billion in sponsored research funds, a
- tribute to the exceptional quality of our diverse and
- innovative faculty, students and staff, and the
- power of the UW intellectual community.
- The UW receives more federal research funding than any other
American public university, a ranking held since 1974. In the most
recent ranking by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the UW
ranked 16th among the world's top universities.
- web:http://www.washington.edu
17. Educational opportunities for belarusiansin USA:
- Youth Cultural Opportunity (YCO)
- The Youth Cultural Opportunity (YCO) provides an opportunity
for Belarusian high school students to experience the United States
through a three-week summer program which includes a two-week
home-stay with an American family and a one-week cultural
orientation in Washington, DC.
- The Eurasia Undergraduate Program is conducted through an open
competition.
- The Edmund Muskie Fellowship Program is conducted through an
open competition.
- Includes the Fulbright Scholar Program and the Summer Study
Institutes.
18. References:
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- (http://www.prof.msu.ru/publ/conf/conf14.htm
- The Top American Research Universities
- California Future: It Starts Here. UCs Contribution to Economic
Growth, Health and Culture. An Impact Studyfor the University of
California.
2000http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/itstartshere/report/fullreport.pdf
- Websites of citeduniversities