"The heart of the book is an analysis showing how these strategies are carried out based on site-visit data from 26 highly diverse colleges and universities. This broad sampling covers all geographic regions of the country and every type of institution from elite research universities to community colleges. The authors then consider what strategies are possible in particular markets and how they affect students and competing institutions. Their conclusions draws out the implications of strategy and competition for the various customers of the U.S. higher education industry. Groundbreaking and genuinely exploratory in methodology, In Pursuit of Prestige will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of higher education."--BOOK JACKET.

"The heart of the book is an analysis showing how these strategies are carried out based on site-visit data from 26 highly diverse colleges and universities. This broad sampling covers all geographic regions of the country and every type of institution from elite research universities to community colleges. The authors then consider what strategies are possible in particular markets and how they affect students and competing institutions. Their conclusions draws out the implications of strategy and competition for the various customers of the U.S. higher education industry. Groundbreaking and genuinely exploratory in methodology, In Pursuit of Prestige will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of higher education."--BOOK JACKET.

The Brain Korea 21 Program (BK21), which seeks to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in Korea, provides funding to graduate students and professors who belong to research groups at top universities. The authors develop quantitative and qualitative models to evaluate how well BK21 is fulfilling its goals and make suggestions for further stimulating Korean university research.

Describes the first phase (2001-2004) of Qatar's bold K-12 education reform initiative, Education for a New Era, based on RAND's experiences as part of this ambitious, multi-participant effort. RAND examined the existing Qatari education system, recommended options for building a world-class system, and supported implementation of the chosen option, which is based on internationally benchmarked curriculum standards and parental choice of schools.

This report discusses alternatives to current SROTC battalion staffing in which many active-duty soldiers performing teaching and training functions would be replaced by reservists or by contracted civilians with former military service.

Scholarships are an important tool the Army uses to recruit and retain students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. Any scholarship program faces challenges because of the high and rising cost of college. In response to this challenge and limited Army budgets, Cadet Command has made a number of recent alterations in the scholarship program to try to sustain a sufficient number of scholarships to attract students in fulfillment of its mission to commission officers into the U.S. Army. This report analyzes those recent policy changes and their effect on students' acceptance of Army scholarships as well as the types of schools they choose to enroll in. This report has two purposes. First, it recommends a structure for evaluating scholarship programs. Our analysis suggests that the schools participating in the ROTC program fall into five categories: historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), ROTC military colleges, other public colleges, prestigious private colleges, and other private colleges. Each category of school has desirable characteristics for the Army, but each attracts a different type of student and has a different cost structure. The report examines several criteria that may be used to assess the value of these different types of programs and considers the factors that influence the costs the Army faces in attracting students at each type of school. The second purpose of this report is to explore reasonable options for structuring the scholarship program today. Based on an examination of student responses to past programs, the report offers four ways the Army could structure its scholarship program. The report illustrates the effect of each alternative program across the five categories of schools. Since the Army has not made definitive statements about the types of students or schools that it sees as desirable for ROTC, it is not possible to be more precise in recommending a scholarship program.

This report discusses alternatives to current SROTC battalion staffing in which many active-duty soldiers performing teaching and training functions would be replaced by reservists or by contracted civilians with former military service.