Our Mission

The Yardley Research Group is deeply concerned with long-standing national patterns in mathematics, science, engineering, and—broadly speaking—cultural education. Relatively few U.S. citizens are qualified for or interested in undertaking doctoral study, and recent world events have had the effect of diminishing participation from abroad—all to the detriment of the world’s premiere system of higher education. It is conceivable that within a generation, the United States will lack the technical and scientific expertise required to support and sustain its position of leadership in the world. It is also possible that it will lack the cultural knowledge and experience necessary to behave morally, responsibly, and sensitively in an interdependent global community.

For these reasons, the Yardley Research Group conceives its mission to:

• foster the highest possible level of research, scholarship, and graduate education in the nation’s leading universities;
  

• impact the ways that younger students are prepared for lifelong public service careers that require technical, scientific, cultural, and civic expertise; and
  

• facilitate the matching of strong prospective students with the most appropriate graduate programs.
  

In cooperation with some of the nation’s leading associations of educational professionals and with our institutional clients, the Yardley Research Group seeks to change the nature, extent, direction, and features of the national conversation on higher learning and its role in our national and international civic lives.