Research grants. Since the 1990s, neo-liberal ideologies have penetrated the
discourse of higher education, leading, among other things, to a greater importance
placed on fund-raising in an academic career. From most of the CVs (only eight omitted
information about grants) one learns that EA authors obtained grants for conducting
research in a host of areas, including leadership, school finance, school structure,
school culture, policy, evaluation, reforms, gender, leadership development, educator’s
career educational change, and so forth.