LEADER 03717nam 2200529 450 001 9910452037403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-28550-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000451974 035 $a(MH)009505862-1 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000230835 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12032471 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000230835 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10197985 035 $a(PQKB)10898833 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4660584 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4660584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11252763 035 $a(OCoLC)957700492 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000451974 100 $a20160915h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPursuing the endless frontier $eessays on MIT and the role of research Universities /$fessays by Charles M. Vest 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cThe MIT Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (xxvi, 292 p. ) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-262-51678-0 311 $a0-262-22072-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMIT: 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). 330 1 $a"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. 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a378.744/4 700 $aVest$b Charles M.$014883 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452037403321 996 $aPursuing the endless frontier$92462325 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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