Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: GI Bill
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Public Higher Education: A New Social Compact for Innovation
It is time for us to collaboratively and thoughtfully rethink the social compact surrounding public higher education. This includes defining the 21st century knowledge economy version of the public land-grant university
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Higher Education in the 21st Century
Public research universities are in the business of helping people. This is especially true in times of accelerating and disruptive change.
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Extraordinary Times, Challenges and Opportunities
The American research university has changed radically and repeatedly over the past century. It emerged from Cold War as a government-funded instrument of social change, economic competitiveness and national security. There is no reason, indeed ample precedent to the contrary, to believe that it will not continue to evolve rapidly and radically. The current culture…