The Center for Measuring University Performance

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The Center's annual report, The Top American Research Universities , offers analysis and data useful for understanding American research university performance. The Top American Research Universities annual publication provides a comprehensive set of data on over 600 institutions, and on occasion includes analytical discussions of topics related to research university performance. It also publishes an institution specific series called Measuring University Performance. The Center 's data and analysis have attracted considerable attention around the country, and The Center (with support from the GTE Foundation) has participated with a number of institutions and individuals in the United States and abroad in discussions about incentive and reward systems that lead to improved university performance. Members of The Center staff have offered and continue to offer a graduate course ( Managing Universities ) on these issues in an effort to disseminate the analytical techniques and with the expectation that the critical discussions in this colloquium will refine and challenge the assumptions and data.