TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vest,Charles M.
AU  - Augustine,Norman B.
TI  - Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262285506
AV  - T171.M4493 2005 
U1  - 378.7444 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - The former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large
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ER  -