What are the essential ingredients that give rise to excellence in graduate education in a research institution?
My answer to that is faculty, faculty, faculty people. Faculty attract the best students; the best students attract the best faculty. It is an autocatalytic process that works very well once it starts. What are the factors that can erode excellence? To a large extent, it’s lack of attention: lack of attention to deteriorating facilities, to the fact that the intellectual frontiers of an area have moved off into the distance and you’re still fighting the old battles, lack of attention to the living environment of students. There are a whole series of intangibles that make one academic environment more attractive than another that must be nurtured. What strategy or process can help insure continued excellence? It’s attention to the needs of the faculty and the movement in new areas of science. How important is research infrastructure to the success and competitiveness of faculty in their research efforts? It is absolutely essential. Speaking always from the point of view of the sciences,
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