چکیده (انگلیسی):

Small private liberal arts colleges are increasingly tuition-dependent and mainly attract students
by creating student-centered learning communities. On the other hand, larger universities tend to
be trendsetters where its faculty tend to seek intellectual independence and are involved in career
focused cutting-edge research. The Institutional Development Awards (IDeA) and Experimental
Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) are federal-state-university partnerships
that builds basic research infrastructure and coax the state-wide higher education institutions to
collaborate with each other in order to enhance their competitiveness. As a result in Delaware,
Wesley College instituted curricular and operational changes to launch an undergraduate
program in biological chemistry where its students take three upper division chemistry courses
and can choose to participate in annual summer undergraduate internships at nearby Delaware
State University.