Word: highers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result was the most sweeping statement the young dean has ever released on higher education and Harvard's role...
...also lists a dramatic fall-off in federal financial support for higher education, a breakdown in the "postwar consensus" backing the funding of scientific research and an impending shortage of professors nationwide...
...dean, not usually given to sweeping generalizations, also insists that less tangible factors present an anti-higher education view, pointing specifically to "popular books about professors taking advantage of the system to earn extra income and to minimize their commitment to teaching...
...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...