Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.
A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.
Academic success depends on research and publications.
I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at a cost in getting things right.
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.
Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.