Word: researching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
...prognosis, according to Spence, may be a gloomy one. "One may wonder, and I occasionally do, if the implicit message in all of this isn't that the American conception of the research university is no longer viable," he writes...
...Because Harvard is still the leader inAmerican higher education, it falls to us tocreate a viable vision of the research universityfor the next century and to turn that vision intoa reality," Spence wrote...
...Harvard College Library is, by allaccounts, the greatest research library in theworld...But we do not have the resources--infacilities or funds--to continue on our presenttrajectory," Spence wrote...