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CONSOLIDATED CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: A PROGRAM TO IMPROVE THE UTILIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING TALENT
Pages 47-56

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From page 47...
... Seven in number, these themes are: 1 The massive influence of the federal government on the deployment and utilization of scientists and engineers. This influence imposes on government an entirely new order of responsibility to prevent malutilization.
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From page 48...
... They also have an increasing responsibility for encouraging personnel, especially those in the professions, to renew, update, and extend their skills throughout their careers, and for providing them opportunities to do so. These seven themes provide the perspective from which the Committee's recommendations for improved utilization of scientific and engineering manpower emerged.
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From page 49...
... While the Committee does not recommend a specific location for this unit in the Executive Office, it notes the feasibility of placing it in the Office of Science and Technology. Each department and agency charged with major scientific or engineering activities should assign to one of its top officials page IS responsibility for improving the utilization of civilian scientists and engineers, both those the agency employs and those whose work it finances.
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From page 50...
... Great care must be taken by government agencies to establish meaningful and realistic performance criteria. The Committee commends federal contracting agencies in the fields of defense and space for their increasing ability to act at page I8 an early stage to cancel, curtail, or materially alter major programs that do not appear to be worth their cost.
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From page 51...
... It should also help to foster improved forecasting of their future requirements for scientific and engineering personnel. The Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, page 11 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, and other government departments and agencies should periodically review the missions and programs of the mission-oriented research laboratories they finance in full, both those they operate directly and those operated under contract, in order to make sure (a)
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From page 52...
... 16 Industry, government, and the universities all share a responsibility to train and develop more managers and project Jfage 15 engineers who combine thorough understanding of the technology they manage with mastery of the art of leadership. Companies that use scientific and engineering manpower should actively seek ways to help their high-talent manpage 96 power augment and replenish their professional capabilities.
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... UTILIZATION IN THE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Colleges and universities engaged in scientific and engineering education must accept full responsibility for maintaining page 3t a proper balance among the claims of teaching, research, and public service. They should systematically seek the cooperation of the federal government in maintaining the proper balance.
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From page 54...
... Universities with strength in science should accept a responsibility to provide special study and research oppage 39 portunities for faculty members of independent liberal arts colleges. Moreover, these colleges need to strengthen the quality of their science teaching through increased funds for salaries, research, and faculty leaves for professional development.
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... Our goal should be to encourage the flowering of individual skills and to open new avenues of individual fulfillment. In our researchoriented, innovative society we have an unprecedented opportunity to encourage all our citizens to be creative, each in his own way.
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