Charles M. Vest Quotes

• 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 we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.

  Charles M. Vest

  Children, Science, Math

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• 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 the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Believe, Technology

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Hurt, Quality

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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 graduate education.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Support, Trying

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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 but are no longer paid for by them.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Shifting, Cost

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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 like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

  Charles M. Vest

  Awards, Pell Grants, Tuition

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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.

  Charles M. Vest

  Goal, Research, Congress

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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 would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

  Charles M. Vest

  Hands, Tuition, Argument

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Sin embargo, los presupuestos de investigación del Departamento de Defensa están sometidos a una enorme presión, y son extremadamente importantes porque sostienen más del 40% de toda la financiación federal de las escuelas de ingeniería de todo el país. Así que la amenaza era y es real.

  Charles M. Vest

  Country, Stress, Real

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• 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 and the federal government was badly eroding.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Doors, Years

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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 across all income brackets.

  Charles M. Vest

  Income, Littles, Financial

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Creo que nuestra oficina ha sido claramente líder en la creación de coaliciones, en conseguir que otras universidades de todo el mundo interactúen más eficazmente con el gobierno y, en particular, con el Congreso.

  Charles M. Vest

  Believe, Government, Office

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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 how research funds are expended.

  Charles M. Vest

  Real, Done, Mit

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• 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 research universities.

  Charles M. Vest

  Science, Groups, Mit

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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 military, and they respect that in turn.

  Charles M. Vest

  Respect, Military, Long

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• 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 about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Technology, Agency

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• Durante gran parte de esta década, tanto las previsiones presupuestarias del Congreso como las de la Administración mostraban un descenso de las cuentas de ciencia y tecnología de entre el 20% y el 30% en dólares reales. El impacto real hasta la fecha ha sido mucho menos grave.

  Charles M. Vest

  Real, Ciencia, Tecnología

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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 close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

  Charles M. Vest

  Helpful, Made, Taxes

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• 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 of the consumer price index.

  Charles M. Vest

  Growth, Boards, Cost

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