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January 02, 2008
Charles M. Vest, MSE'64, PhD'67
The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web: Governments, the Private Sector, and the Emerging Meta-University, University of California Press, 2007.
The book: Forty years after Clark Kerr coined the term "multiversity," the American research university has continued to evolve into a complex force for social and economic good. Charles M. Vest, one of the leading advocates for autonomy for American higher education, offers a view of the university at the beginning of a new century. With a complex mission and funding structure, the university finds its international openness challenged by new security concerns and its ability to contribute to worldwide opportunity through sharing and collaboration expanded by the Internet.
The author: Charles M. Vest is president emeritus and professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the dean of engineering at U-M from 1986 to 1989 and also served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at U-M from January 1989 to August 1990.
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