Dive Brief:
- While federal funding on research dropped from 2009 to 2013, university leaders have three key ideas for attracting more support.
- Creating better long-term partnerships with business and communities, stressing the universal benefits of research, is critical, eCampus News reports.
- Implementing enterprising IT initiatives attracts support now, and broadening the student pipeline, welcoming more students into STEM fields, helps line up support for later, according to the article.
Dive Insight:
Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, gave his funding insights during the Internet2 2015 Global Summit this week. Government and philanthropic support for research, like its support for other initiatives, dipped during the recession and has only started to climb again. The research funding levels from the federal government in 2014 were higher than 2013, following four consecutive years of inflation-adjusted dollar reductions. While still difficult, making the case with donors may be easier now than it was three years ago.