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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.”

Believe Government I Believe Leader Building Office University Congress Contrary Coalitions

Author:Charles M. Vest

“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.”

Years Moments Government Clear Doors Research University Productive Partnership Federal Government Mit

Author: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.”

Use Government Used Term Cost Paid University Used To Be Budgets Federal Government Items Shifting

Author:Charles M. Vest

“If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.”

Ifs Mean Persons Government Given Term Work Effort Responsibility Serious Office Golf University Clubs Agency Faculty Yield Given Up Quota Golf Clubs Dropouts Government Agencies

Book:The Recovery of Confidence

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.”

Book Government Purpose Calling Presses University Printing Printing Press

Author:Francis Cornford

“That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.”

People Wells Government Jobs Interesting Organization Paid University Retirement Severe Indictment Government Service

Author:Peter Drucker

“A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.”

Knows Whole Government Social Leader Know How Economic Function Unions Including University Economic Systems Systems Of Government

Author:Jean Chretien

“The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all subject to government scrutiny. There used to be a time in this country when we were worried whether our young people knew how to read. Now some in our government are more worried that government agents be able to find out what people are reading.”

People Looks Book Country Government Able Young Used Reading Records Subjects Library University Used To Be Magazines Agents Worried Patriot Scrutiny Circulation Patron Patriot Act

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?”

Want Done Facts Government Would Be Today Accepting Democracy Path Dangerous University Foolish Peril

Author:Vincent Massey

“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.”

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.”

Wells States Government Church Known Support Acceptance College Taxes University Ancient Aids Related Well Known Axioms Colleges And Universities

Book:Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid

Source: Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid