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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Charles Vest Charles "Chuck" Marstiller Vest (September 9, 1941 – December 12, 2013) was a U.S. educator and engineer. He served as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 until December 2004, when he was succeeded by Susan Hockfield. He served as president of the National Academy of Engineering from 2007 to 2013. Read full biography of Charles Vest → 1 2 Ctrl → Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of... → 0 Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs... → 0 On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable... → 0 We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage... → 0 Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. 0 Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research... → 0 We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the... → 0 Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more... → 0 The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are... → 0 We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising... → 0 I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly... → 0 Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people... → 0 For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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