LEADER 04927oam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910777416703321 005 20190503073328.0 010 $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 $a(OCoLC)57560156$z(OCoLC)671739893$z(OCoLC)1036790845 035 $a(OCoLC-P)57560156 035 $a(MaCbMITP)5711 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000451974 100 $a20050203d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPursuing the endless frontier $eessays on MIT and the role of research universities : essays /$fby Charles M. Vest 210 $aCambridge, Mass. ;$aLondon $cMIT Press$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 $aThe former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large.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. In the provocative essay "What We Don't Know," Vest reminds us of what he calls "the most critical point of all," that science is driven by a deep human need to understand nature, to answer the "big questions"--that what we don't know is more important than what we do. In another essay, on the future of MIT, he celebrates MIT's strengths as being extraordinarily well-suited to the needs of an era of unprecedented change in science and technology. In "Disturbing the Educational Universe: Universities in the Digital Age--Dinosaurs or Prometheans," he describes MIT's innovative OpenCourseWare initiative, which builds on the fundamental nature of the Internet as an enabling and liberating technology.Vest, who is stepping down from MIT's presidency in the fall of 2004, writes with clarity and insight about the issues facing academic institutions in the twenty-first century. His essays in Pursuing the Endless Frontier offer inspiration to educators and researchers seeking the way forward. 610 $aEDUCATION/General 610 $aMIT 676 $a378.744/4 700 $aVest$b Charles M$014883 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777416703321 996 $aPursuing the endless frontier$93675185 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