Discusses how and why universities might restructure their graduate
programs toward a greater sensitivity to society's needs. When
aerospace engineers, laid off from the space program, feel lucky to
find employment as manual laborers; when physics Ph.D.s, ready and
willing to teach, find themselves at the end of waiting lists
hundreds of names long for positions at little-known colleges and
even high schools-then clearly the problem of making proper use of
those with advanced education, and of giving them proper scope, is
already at a critical point.This book brings together from the
universities, industry, and government a group that is
knowledgeable and concerned, ex officio and as individuals. In
their presentations and discussions they consider numerous aspects
of the problem and several means of resolution.In their preface the
editors write, "In an attempt to convene various experts who had
written in the scientific manpower field, a symposium was organized
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the title The
Supply, Need, and Utilization of Graduate Scientists and Engineers
and was held on May 12 and 13, 1970. This report is an edited and
restructured summary of discussions held at that time, with
particular emphasis on the effect of the manpower utilization
problem on graduate education. It clearly points to the urgency of
manpower planning on a national scale and the necessity for
universities to restructure their graduate programs toward a much
greater sensitivity to society's utilization of the products of
their educational programs."The Symposium was jointly sponsored by
the National Science Foundation and the Commission on MIT
Education. Among the invited speakers were Philip H. Abelson,
Editor of Science; Charles R. Bowen, Manager, Program Development,
IBM Corporation; Allan Cartter, Chancellor, New York University;
Charles Falk, Head of the Office of Economic Manpower and Special
Studies, National Science Foundation; Richard S. Gordon, Vice
President, New Enterprises, Monsanto Company; William C. Kelly,
Director, Office of Scientific Personnel, National Research
Council; Herbert Pahl, Acting Associate Director for Planning and
Evaluation, National Institute of General Medical Science; Elbridge
Sibley, Executive Associate, Social Sciences Research Council;
Guyford Stever, President, Carnegie-Mellon University; and several
directors of research for large companies.
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