The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used … - Charles M. Vest

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First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

Charles M. Vest

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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America faces many challenges. . . but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.

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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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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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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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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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