Charles Vest
Charles Vest
Charles "Chuck" Marstiller Vestwas a U.S. educator and engineer. He served as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 until December 2004, when he was succeeded by Susan Hockfield. He served as president of the National Academy of Engineering from 2007 to 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth9 September 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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We must have excellence, but we must also have accessibility to that excellence.