Preserving Strength While Meeting Challenges Summary Report of a Workshop on Actions for the Mathematical Sciences (1997) / Chapter Skim
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A View of Major Trends at Research Universities
A View of Major Trends at Research Universities
Pages 45-50
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I thought it desirable to attempt to verbalize the changing environment of our universities, for they are crucial to our mathematical enterprise. The mathematical sciences, perhaps more than the other sciences, are very university-based; moreover, the ubiquitous nature of mathematics-in precollegiate education and throughout the industrial and service sectors of our economy-does not give it a center outside our research universities.
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It is notable that, in spite of indicators that our political leadership values undergraduate education more highly than research, there continues to be a deep commitment to sustaining our university-based research enterprise. There seems to be a developing agreement among thoughtful observers that the established paradigm of teaching, research, and service, with its implication of separate and contradictory activities to be carefully balanced, is yielding to what seems to me a more descriptive paradigm of learning, transmitting, and applying knowledge.
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Department of Education's Post-secondary Review Entities, this increase in accountability and the burden it places on higher education is continuing. This is evident in regulations imposed on grant management by both the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, in rules regulating faculty workload and financial aid for students, and in the use of "performance funding" mechanisms of financial support institutions of higher education.
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But we have little choice but to learn from others and adapt, and hopefully to invent methods designed to increase our effectiveness and efficiency. These methodologies are designed to simultaneously increase effectiveness and efficiency, and thus stretch resources, and to increase accountability at the individual, departmental, and institutional levels.
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This trend is contributing to a profound and positive transformation in the outlook and attitudes of our faculty at research institutes, in how they prepare their graduate students with a new emphasis on teaching, and on teaching careers beyond research universities. Finally, a profound change has occurred in the roles and responsibilities of the faculty that is resulting in a much higher level of involvement in multidisciplinary, multidepartmental work; in a joining together in "team" efforts much more now than in the past; and in the involvement of teachers, undergraduates, graduates, and faculty in joint enterprises that open disciplines, education, and research.
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weaknesses and the new environment and let us respond to the opportunities. The quality of our response will determine both the level of our support from society and our performance.
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