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From page 24... ... ISSUES FOR THE 1990s & BEYOND The trends of the past decade converge to pose three major challenges to the academic research enterprise. As stated at the outset of this report, the challenges are: To maintain the over-all quality of the nation's universities and their academic research in an increasingly diversified, financially constrained environment; to ensure sufficient scientific and technical human resources to meet the nation's research mission; and to enhance the nation's ability to address new scientific and technological opportunities and concomitant societal demands. Read the entire page →

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... ISSUES FOR THE 1990s & BEYOND The trends of the past decade converge to pose three major challenges to the academic research enterprise. As stated at the outset of this report, the challenges are: To maintain the over-all quality of the nation's universities and their academic research in an increasingly diversified, financially constrained environment; to ensure sufficient scientific and technical human resources to meet the nation's research mission; and to enhance the nation's ability to address new scientific and technological opportunities and concomitant societal demands.

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