Pursuing the Endless Frontier : Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities.
Title:
Pursuing the Endless Frontier : Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities.
Author:
Vest, Charles M.
ISBN:
9780262285506
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (319 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 MIT: Shaping the Future -- 2 From the First Year -- 3 Excellence in an Era of Change and Constraint -- 4 Embracing Complexity, Moving toward Coherence -- 5 Higher Education and the Challenges of a New Era -- 6 What We Don't Know -- 7 Bold Ventures and Opportunity for All? -- 8 Stewards of the Future -- 9 MIT: The Path to Our Future -- 10 Three Questions in Search of Answers -- 11 Disturbing the Educational Universe -- 12 Response and Responsibility -- 13 Moving On -- Index.
Abstract:
The former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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