Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard? At risk? Surely not with an endowment rapidly approaching the $5 billion mark...
Citing a host of factors which he says have damaged the ability of research institutions to conduct business, Spence concludes that Harvard must enter the fundraising sweepstakes in order to finance its future...
...after setting up a nearly apocalyptic assessment of the standing of higher education in American society, Spence says he is hopeful that the modern research institution will endure--with Harvard leading...
...Because Harvard is still the leader in American higher education," Spence writes, "it falls to us to create a viable vision of the research university for the next century and to turn that vision into a reality...
...letter, Spence outlines eight areas, including internationalization and renewed emphasis on the sciences, which form much of his "vision for Harvard's path into the next century...