I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effe…

- Charles M. Vest

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 n…

- Charles M. Vest

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 universiti…

- Charles M. Vest

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 abo…

- Charles M. Vest

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 p…

- Charles M. Vest

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 wo…

- Charles M. Vest

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

- Charles M. Vest

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…

- Charles M. Vest

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 a…

- Charles M. Vest