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 concentrate so much on what we're really good at that sometimes we don't look far enough out into the future and see what the problems are.
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We must have excellence, but we must also have accessibility to that excellence.
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Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.
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For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.