William B. Dabars Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/byline/william-b-dabars/ The best minds on the most important topics. Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:58:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png William B. Dabars Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/byline/william-b-dabars/ 32 32 It’s Time for Universities to Redesign Their 75-Year-Old Contract https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/ https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46466 American research universities have unleashed an age of massive technical innovation—but they’ve failed to innovate their own designs to meet the changing needs of society.

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]]> https://issues.org/universities-redesign-contract-crow-dabars-rosowsky/feed/ 1 Reconceptualizing the Public Research University https://issues.org/reconceptualizing-public-research-university-dabars/ https://issues.org/reconceptualizing-public-research-university-dabars/#respond Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=33469 Engineering education in the United States is “stuck in 1955,” according to a recent assessment by Sheryl Sorby, Norman L. Fortenberry, and Gary Bertoline of the American Society for Engineering Education. But… Read More

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selectivity of the top private research universities and liberal arts colleges
in the United States no longer surprises anyone. Harvard, Stanford, and the
rest compete on the basis of this… Read More

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