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Pursuing the Endless Frontier : Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262285506
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pursuing the Endless FrontierDDC classification:
  • 378.7444
LOC classification:
  • T171.M4493 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: The former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large.
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Intro -- 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.

The former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large.

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