id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-13787 Rosenzweig, Robert M. Research Universities in the Next Decade 1982-03-01 8 .pdf application/pdf 5720 244 54 In order to face this future effectively, research universities must seek to retain a necessary level of federal support, to secure new partners and • alliances to augment this support, and to ensure that primary agenda-setting responsibility for their teaching and research programs continues to reside with their faculties, administrators, and trustees. The main facts of contempo- rary American life from the perspective of research universities are the corrosive effects of a widespread indifference- even hostili- ty- to the well-being of important social in- stitutions; the equally corrosive effects of rapid and sustained inflation; the active role of government in regulating economic and social activity; and the growing importance of and ambivalence to science and technol- ogy. cache/crl-13787.pdf txt/crl-13787.txt