Charles M. Vest Quotes

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• 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…
• Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very…
• Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
• For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent…
• We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support…
• Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to…
• 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…
• 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 Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60…
• America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If…
• 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…
• I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with…
• 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…
• 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 universities…
• Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of…
• 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…
• Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
• The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government…
• 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 points…

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