By Charles M. Vest
In his fourteen years as president of MIT, Charles Vest labored constantly to gain his imaginative and prescient of rebuilding America's belief in technological know-how and know-how. In a time whilst the government dramatically decreased its investment of educational study courses and shifted its R&D assets into the non permanent product-development technique, Vest known as for brand new partnerships with company and executive. He known as for universities to satisfy the highbrow demanding situations posed by means of the innovation-driven, globally attached wishes of even as he reaffirmed easy educational values and the ongoing desire for longer-term clinical inquiry.In Pursuing the never-ending Frontier, Vest addresses those and different concerns in a sequence of essays written in the course of his tenure as president of MIT. He discusses the examine university's have to shift to a broader, extra overseas outlook, the worth of variety within the educational neighborhood, the better management function for school outdoors the study room, and the boundless chance of recent medical and technological advancements even if coupled with monetary constraints. within the provocative essay "What we do not Know," Vest reminds us of what he calls "the most important element of all," that technological know-how is pushed via a deep human have to comprehend nature, to reply to the "big questions" -- that what we do not be aware of is extra very important than what we do. In one other essay, at the way forward for MIT, he celebrates MIT's strengths as being terribly well-suited to the desires of an period of unparalleled swap in technology and expertise. In "Disturbing the academic Universe: Universities within the electronic Age -- Dinosaurs or Prometheans," he describes MIT's cutting edge OpenCourseWare initiative, which builds at the basic nature of the net as an permitting and releasing technology.Vest, who's stepping down from MIT's presidency within the fall of 2004, writes with readability and perception concerning the matters dealing with educational associations within the twenty-first century. His essays in Pursuing the unending Frontier provide thought to educators and researchers looking the best way ahead.
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Moreover, regardless of differing views regarding the social responsibilities of higher education, the fact remains that the racial and ethnic structure of the American populace and workforce is changing rapidly in well known and absolutely predictable ways. Students who are to be optimally educated for the world they will enter must learn from the experience of living with and learning with and from students and faculty representing the diversity of people who now comprise the country’s population.
Among them are people whose 10 Chapter 1 passion is to engineer a better world; among them are people with a particular, concentrated brilliance; among them are profoundly creative people who tread new and different pathways. We are gifted with some of the very brightest young people of our nation and of the world. It is through these students that MIT will have its greatest influence on the world of the future. In recent years, our faculty has been involved in a long-term review of the undergraduate program.
However, when this trait is combined with the American public’s unquenchable thirst for sensation and for daily dosages of revolutionary advances, extraneous temptations and inappropriate forces are created. • Finally, the opportunity for monetary gain. Universities have become great engines of the modern economy, and we have increasingly worked together with profit-based industries in arrangements that have contributed significantly to the common good. Yet some of these ties between university scientists and the corporate world, with their enhanced opportunities for personal financial gain, may not always be free from the possibility of troubling conflict of interest.
