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american-educator concept grew grown harvard informal initial science

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.

american-educator dollars federal fund million paid period question sources year

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

american-educator federal government items longer paid term

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.

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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.

american-educator balanced close dire ended higher tax time

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.

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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.

american-educator badly came clear federal government highly literally moment productive

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.

american-educator begun economic education hurt level range strictly

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

american-educator consumer cost half percentage points room

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.

american-educator caused economic fair faster federal imaginable indicate policy raise rate tuition

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.

american-educator defence firm industrial openness principals proud respect work

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.

american-educator believe continue dimensions higher importance looking quality research security strength underlying

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.

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