The National Research Council today announced the creation of a 21-member panel of business and higher-education leaders who will spend the next year, at the request of Congress, compiling a list of “the top 10 actions that Congress, the federal government, state governments, research universities, and others could take to assure the ability of the American research university to maintain the excellence in research and doctoral education needed to help the United States compete, prosper, and achieve national goals for health, energy, the environment, and security in the global community of the 21st century.”
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2 Responses to National Academies Launch Study of Research Universities
11245928 - June 24, 2010 at 3:38 pm
The first thing they should do is reaffirm the importance of a university education as a public rather than a private good, and the second is read vannevar Bush and develop a “Bush” Agenda for the twenty first century.
jack_cade - June 25, 2010 at 9:34 am
Seconded.Also, returning that public interest to a broad research university system is important. Emphasizing science, math, etc. is all well and good, however, for research into the “world” to flourish we need to also reemphasize research into the imagination. For research of “reality” to even exist we must also understand the unrealities we construct. Otherwise, we risk “discovering” facts that are really just fictions, and failing to notice fictions that are or will become facts.