Charles Marstiller Vest Quotes

• 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 about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Education

  Tags in True, Science, Agency

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Make, Purely

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Leader, Government

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Real, Between

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strength, Believe, Important

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Between, Moment

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Interest

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Important, Real

• 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 would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economic, Fair

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Made, Helpful, Close

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Intelligence, Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinion

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Group, Science, Research

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

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Education

  Tags in American, Hurt

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Used

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Research

• 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.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Used, Longer

• We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Better, Support

• We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Growth, Within

• We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we’re proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Keep, Defence

Charles Marstiller Vest (19)

Birth:	9th September, 1941
Death:	12th December, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Educator, Mechanical Engineer

About

Charles Marstiller Vest was a U.S. educator and engineer. He served as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 until December 2004. He was succeeded as President by Susan Hockfield. Vest served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and chaired the Task Force on the Future of Science Programs at the Department of Energy. At the request of President Bill Clinton, he chaired the Committee on the Redesign of the International Space Station, which revitalized the space station at a time when its future was in question. On February 6, 2004, he was appointed to the Iraq Intelligence Commission by President George W. Bush. He was later appointed president of the National Academy of Engineering.

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