03717nam 2200529 450 991045203740332120200520144314.00-262-28550-9(CKB)1000000000451974(MH)009505862-1(SSID)ssj0000230835(PQKBManifestationID)12032471(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000230835(PQKBWorkID)10197985(PQKB)10898833(MiAaPQ)EBC4660584(Au-PeEL)EBL4660584(CaPaEBR)ebr11252763(OCoLC)957700492(EXLCZ)99100000000045197420160915h20052005 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrPursuing the endless frontier essays on MIT and the role of research Universities /essays by Charles M. VestCambridge, Massachusetts ;London, England :The MIT Press,2005.©20051 online resource (xxvi, 292 p. )Includes index.0-262-51678-0 0-262-22072-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.MIT: Shaping the future (Inaugural address, 10 May 1991) -- From the first year: MIT in national and international context (1990-1991) -- Excellence in an era of change and constraint (1991-1992) -- Embracing complexity, moving toward coherence (1992-1993) -- Higher education and the challenges of a new era (1993-1994) -- What we don't know (1994-1995) -- Bold ventures and opportunity for all? (1995-1996) -- Steward of the future: the evolving roles of academia, industry, and government (1996-1997) -- MIT: The path to our future (1997-1998) -- Three questions in search of answers (1998-1999) -- Disturbing the educational universe: universities in the digital age-dinosaurs or prometheans? (2000-2001) -- Response and responsibility: balancing security and openness in research and education (2001-2002) -- Moving on (2002-2004)."In his fourteen years as president of MIT Charles Vest worked continuously to realize his vision of rebuilding America's trust in science and technology. In a time when the federal government dramatically reduced its funding of academic research programs and industry shifted its R & D resources into the short-term product-development process, Vest called for new partnerships with business and government. He called for universities to meet the intellectual challenges posed by the innovation-driven, globally connected needs of industry even as he reaffirmed basic academic values and the continuing need for longer-term scientific inquiry. In Pursuing the Endless Frontier, Vest addresses these and other issues in a series of essays written during his tenure as president of MIT. He discusses the research university's need to shift to a broader, more international outlook, the value of diversity in the academic community, the greater leadership role for faculty outside the classroom, and the boundless opportunity of new scientific and technological developments even when coupled with financial constraints."--Jacket.Electronic books.378.744/4Vest Charles M.14883MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452037403321Pursuing the endless frontier2462325UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress