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Chairing the Mathematical Sciences Department of the 1990s Proceedings of a Colloquium October 27-28, 1989 Arlington, Virginia (1990) / Chapter Skim
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7 Renewing U.S. Mathematics
Pages 63-68

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... Preliminary plans for dissemination of the 1990 update of the David report are described. Discussion focuses on the role mathematical sciences department chairs can play in the dissemination effort and the community support they will need to use the report effectively.
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... Con National Research Council When this program was planned, we anticipated being able to give a great deal of information about the David II report. However, that is impossible because the report remains under development.
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... That is basically a dollar issue directed toward graduate students and postdoctorals. The mathematical sciences community has responded in a variety of ways in the last five years; education issues have been examined and there has been expansion into cross-disciplinary research.
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... We had been aggressively recruiting American students and were beginning to succeed. The administration has turned around and is supporting mathematics to the exclusion of support of chemistry and physics.
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