Ben Wildavsky is a senior scholar in research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World and co-editor of Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation.
His previous blog posts can be found here.
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A paradox of American higher education is the disconnect between our vaunted international reputation and the severe problems we face at home. America’s top research institutions consistently dominate the global rankings sponsored by organizations like Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Times Higher Education. The U.S. model of competitive research funding, merit-based hiring and promotion of faculty, and unfettered pursuit of the truth is closely watched and often …
