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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020