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

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

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

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

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

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 expend…

- Charles M. Vest