Scientific Communication and National Security (1982) / Chapter Skim
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2 Universities and Scientific Communication
2 Universities and Scientific Communication
Pages 22-26
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This was a deliberate decision that was based on the high productivity of universities -- and university people -- in support of national security needs during World War II. m is experience led to support of basic research in universities by the Office of Naval Research immediately after the war, then to the creation of the National Science Foundation n to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences; [and]
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m eir work is done in cosmopolitan groups, and while individual researchers may come and go, the research projects themselves continue in stable institutions that can assemble the best academic talent that exists worldwide in a given field. Research and teaching have now become inextricably intertwined in the American research university.
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Economic considerations have led to falling numbers of engineering graduate students, leaving the country dependent on foreign nationals for a substantial fraction of its engineering faculty needs. Other problems involving the size and complexity of many research operations are also challenging and weakening the research-education system.
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and foreign research workers who visit colleagues and their laboratories and exchange ideas. There are also various governmentally sponsored international exchange programs in science and technology, including several with the Soviet Union, that are explicitly intended to foster international communication.
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International Research and Exchange Board Program The International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) administers a U.S.-Soviet exchange program under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
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