March-April 2010

Academic Researchers Speak

by Inger Bergom, Jean Waltman, Louise August and Carol Hollenshead

Non-tenure-track (NTT) research faculty are perhaps the most under-recognized group of academic professionals on our campuses today, despite their increasingly important role within the expanding academic research enterprise. The American Association for the Advancement of Science reports that the amount of federal spending on R&D has more than doubled since 1976. The government now spends about $140 billion yearly on R&D, and approximately $30 billion of this amount goes to universities each year in the form of grants and contracts.

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