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...Vest said at a February 2003 forum at the Institute of Politics that he was concerned not only that more research will become classified, but that new designations of “sensitive but unclassified” will expand, creating confusion over what can be published and what cannot...
Hopkins said MIT has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of female engineering faculty in the years since the report’s publication, and in January 2001 Vest held a meeting of the presidents and female faculty of nine top research institutions, including Harvard, in an effort to ameliorate issues of gender equity...
...Eighteen of the 25 largest gifts from individuals in MIT’s history have been received during the Vest presidency,” according to the press release...
...Vest has also earned a reputation as a defender of academic freedom in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...Knowledge creation thrives in openness and suffers in isolation,” Vest wrote in MIT’s 2001-2002 MIT annual report...