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	Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / MIT president Vest to retire in 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vest, 62, announced the decision during a meeting of the school's board of trustees and in a letter to faculty and staff that was posted on MIT's Web site.
		Vest, a mechanical engineer by training, led fund-raising efforts that increased MIT's endowment from $1.5 billion to $5.1 billion, and encouraged the school to expand its research in the life sciences.
		Vest said he would stay on until the beginning of the 2004 fall term or until a successor is appointed.
	www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2003/12/05/mit_president_vest_to_retire_in_2004?mode=PF (494 words)

	Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / MIT President Vest to step down after 13 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles Vest, who presided over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during a golden age of science and championed the cause of research universities nationwide, announced his retirement Friday.
		Vest, who also confronted problems with student suicides and disgruntled women faculty members, said he would stay on until the beginning of the 2004 fall term or until a successor is appointed.
		Vest has also been a prominent champion of the cause of research universities as essential for the public interest, making more than 100 trips to Washington during his tenure.
	www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2003/12/05/mit_president_vest_to_step_down_after_13_years?mode=PF (1551 words)

	Charles Vest next president
		Vest has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan, a public university with a total enrollment of 36,500 students, since 1968, when he was hired as associate professor of mechanical engineering.
		Vest has made no announcement yet on who he might be considering for provost, but he has said that he is looking for someone from within MIT.
		Vest denied both charge, saying that he met with members of the groups involved, and told them "in no uncertain terms that these actions had been unacceptable." The students later wrote a letter to the Michigan Daily apologizing for the incident.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V110/N29/vest.29n.html (1063 words)

	The Harvard Crimson Online :: Print Article
		Vest’s resignation also came at the conclusion of a successful $2 billion dollar capital campaign, although an almost $1 billion drop in the endowment since 2000 has forced the university to cut costs and to partially shut down over the holiday break this winter.
		Vest, who is the university’s 15th president, announced his decision at the quarterly meeting of the board of trustees, saying he will remain until the end of the academic year or until his successor is appointed.
		Vest’s work on improving faculty diversity—and in particular appointing more women to senior positions within both the faculty and the administration—has garnered approbation from within the university and across the nation, according to Nancy H. Hopkins ’64, a professor of biology at MIT and one of the school’s foremost advocates for gender equality in research.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=356696 (674 words)

	Redefining the Role of Academic Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles M. Vest, who stepped down as the president of MIT, personified his school's famed ''engineering mentality." Simply put, this is the inclination to find a problem and fix it, including problems related to the role of academic research.
		Vest, 63, had no shortage of problem-solving opportunities in his 14 years at the helm of one of the nation's top research universities.
		But mostly Vest wrestled with the problem of redefining the role of the research university at a time when the federal government is scaling back funding for academic research and much of the private sector is moving toward short-term product development.
	www.larta.org /lavox/articlelinks/2005/050103_academic.asp (657 words)

	News articles for Vest, Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles Vest is stepping down as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the US university whose researchers helped launch the country's...
		Charles M. Vest announced Friday that he is resigning as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as of the fall term, or as soon as a...
		Charles M. Vest was not the first choice when the trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology went looking for a new president in 1989.
	www.linkmorgue.org /united_states/full/Kentucky/Vest.html (2662 words)

	Campus Profile -- President Charles M. Vest: Vest discusses MIT’s commitment to keeping race as a factor in ...
		President Charles M. Vest has been a voice for MIT in national discussions on race and openness in institutions of higher education, particularly in science and engineering.
		Vest is also active in race relations on campus; he formed the Committee on Campus Race Relations in 1994.
		Vest: I will leave it to the social scientists to determine the answer to that question, but it, I think, is of deep concern that we find ourselves in a position of having the federal government single out particular groups solely on the basis of national origin...
	www-tech.mit.edu /V123/N3/Vest_interview.3f.html (1662 words)

	The Long Farewell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the invitation of Vest, presidents from eight peer institutions meet at MIT to examine gender equity issues in academic science and engineering and agree on a plan to address the problem on their campuses.
		Vest vows to keep MIT at the forefront of the movement to preserve race as a factor in college admissions.
		Vest announces that he will step down in the fall of 2004, or when the next president is appointed.
	www.technologyreview.com /articles/04/09/whitlock0904.asp?p=1 (1710 words)

	The Dartmouth Review: Charles Vest on the Research University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles M. Vest, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1990 and 2004, dealt with these and many other issues as he guided M.I.T. through years of tremendous flux.
		Vest believes “that the time will come when affirmative action programs will no longer be necessary, but for now, we still have need,” a sentiment that was echoed by the Supreme Court a few years later when they issued their Grutter v.
		Vest argues that, contrary to what some may say, research universities offer the best possible education, even for undergraduates; that there is a fine balance between undergraduate study, graduate study, and research.
	www.dartreview.com /archives/2005/03/11/charles_vest_on_the_research_university.php (832 words)

	Mass High Tech
		But Vest kept on open door to corporations, be it Raytheon Co. or The Walt Disney Co. At times MIT seemed as much of a retreat for Fortune 500 execs as it did a campus for earnest young students.
		According to news reports, Vest says his top achievements include the cognitive research project; the open courseware initiative that permits students around the world to audit MIT courses; the school’s progress on gender equity; and his efforts in Washington to secure funding for research universities.
		Vest was certainly a good friend to those in the life sciences, whose interests he promoted at every opportunity.
	www.masshightech.com /displayarticledetail.asp?art_id=64458 (699 words)

	An Influential Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		MIT President Charles M. Vest HM, who has led the Institute through 13 years of unprecedented growth and change, announced his resignation at the December 5 meeting of the MIT Corporation.
		Vest made his decision public in a letter to the MIT community.
		Vest's colleagues have been quick to praise his achievements as president and his principled approach to the job.
	www.technologyreview.com /articles/04/02/vandre0204.asp?p=0 (598 words)

	Clark Kerr Lecture Sees Industry and Education Link - The Daily Californian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vest summarized the longstanding relationship between foreign and domestic industry and universities in the United States, praising the value of philanthropic support by corporations.
		Vest noted that endowments to public institutions have been growing at a faster rate than for private universities.
		Vest stressed that private giving is key to financial aid for undergraduates because there "is some sense of having to run harder and harder to stay in the same place".
	www.dailycal.org /article.php?id=19453 (538 words)

	Online NewsHour: Investigating Prewar Intelligence
		Vest is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of Sigma Xi.
		Vest filed a brief in support of affirmative action in college admissions, and lauded the Supreme Court decision upholding the University of Michigan Law School's right to consider race as a factor in the admissions process.
		Vest is married to Rebecca McCue Vest, who is active in national and international MIT alumni events, student affairs and the MIT Women's League.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/intelligence/player_vest.html (386 words)

	MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles M. Vest was president of MIT from 1990 until December 2004.
		Vest was born in Morgantown, W.Va., on Sept. 9, 1941.
		Vest is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and is a Life Member of the MIT Corporation, the Institute's board of trustees.
	web.mit.edu /president/communications/profile.html (382 words)

	M.I.T.’s President Is Expected to Announce His Retirement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vest, 62, has been president of the university for 13 years, an unusually long tenure for a modern college president and the second longest in the institute's history.
		Vest was praised for his candor in 1999 when the institute admitted that it had discriminated against faculty members who were women for many years and in many ways, from lower salaries to smaller laboratory space.
		Vest, a mechanical engineer who was provost at the University of Michigan, is expected to stay through the summer or until a successor is chosen.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/12/05/national/05MIT.html?ei=5007&en=a406856922398211&ex=1386046800&adxnnl=1&partner=USERLAND&adxnnlx=1090296128-dhAKY7sycDPF/O2rV0BADg (537 words)

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		Vest took it upon himself to alert the community about an incident that occurred on our campus that was no doubt hurtful and alienating to some members of our community.
		Vest was certainly in the right to raise awareness about the existence of such hurtful actions and behavior on our campus that could serve to make some students, staff and faculty feel unwelcome in our community and I commend him for taking the time to put out a statement.
		Vest's attention that a student publication had published comic strips and other material that trivialized rape and murder of women, no such statement was forthcoming.
	www.mit.edu /activities/thistle/v15/3/angryfem.html (1227 words)

	MIT World » : Challenges of the Past, Present and Future
		Charles M. Vest is the fifteenth President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		In this latter capacity, Vest chaired the President's Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the Space Station and has served as a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology, and the National Research Council Board on Engineering Education.
		Vest earned his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1964 and 1967, respectively.
	mitworld.mit.edu /video/181 (425 words)

	Cyberbug Speaks: A question about home pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the firestorm of press that followed, MIT President Vest declared (without consulting even the faculty) that all freshmen would be forced to live on campus starting in 2001.
		Vest said the foster home system is an excellent model for the future of MIT housing.
		President Vest downplayed faculty concerns that it would be harder to draw transfer students away from other universities once they have been integrated into student life elsewhere.
	www.docbug.com /Writings/freshmen-on-campus.html (505 words)

	Engineering Systems 2004 Symposium
		Charles M. Vest has been president of MIT since 1990.
		In this latter capacity, Dr. Vest chaired the President's Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the Space Station and has served as a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology, and the National Research Council Board on Engineering Education.
		Vest was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, on September 9, 1941.
	esd.mit.edu /symposium/bios/vest.htm (260 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles M. Vest, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been named the recipient of the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 2000 Arthur M. Bueche Award.
		Vest is the eighteenth recipient of the Bueche Award and is honored for his outstanding university leadership, commitment and effectiveness in helping mold government policy in support of research, and forging linkages between academia and industry.
		Inaugurated as the fifteenth president of MIT in May 1991, Vest is credited with pioneering work in holographic interferometry and the application of this technology to thermal systems and flows.
	www.engineergirl.org /nae/awardscom.nsf/SubpagePrintView/NAEW-4PRRUH?OpenDocument (374 words)

	MIT World » : Pursuing The Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities
		Vest’s new book, outlined in his remarks, provides a detailed and intimate view of his MIT “adventure.” Some key chapters: At the start of his tenure, he confronted a fundamental shift in the relationship between MIT and the federal government, driven by suspicion and hostility toward scientific research.
		Vest's book, Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities (MIT Press 2004), explores the controversial and significant issues facing academic institutions through the prism of his own presidency.
		Vest continues to serve as a member of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, and on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and on the boards of IBM and DuPont.
	mitworld.mit.edu /dsp_page.php?id=245 (461 words)

	Chamber News
		Charles M. Vest, PhD, the 15th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Excellence in Business Awards, to be held on Tuesday, May 4, 2004, at the Charles Hotel.
		Vest is a member of the mechanical engineering faculty at MIT and his research interests are in the thermal sciences and in the engineering applications of lasers and coherent optics.
		Vest is a director of IBM and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company; a trustee of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development; a member of the Corporation of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and an ex-officio institutional trustee of the WGBH Educational Foundation.
	www.cambridgechamber.org /chamber/news_cvest.html (551 words)

	CRC - Inventing the Charles River - text excerpt and illustrations from book by Karl Haglund
		To all appearances, the Charles River is tranquil and unchanging.
		But before the environmental blight that had overtaken the Charles could be remedied, the area that would become the Basin first had to be imagined as a single public space.
		Meanwhile, divergent political and commercial perspectives have left the Charles River Basin and its parklands behind, while public debate centers on the controversies of the Big Dig.
	www.charlesriverconservancy.org /projects/book_inventing.html (835 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vest feels that an educational institution must meet the needs of the society around it.
		Vest has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan, a public university with a total en- rolmient of 36,500 students, since 1968, when he was hired as asso- ciate professor of mechanical en- gineering.
		Vest's appointment ends a pro- cess which began in March 1989 when Gray announced his resig- nation.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_110/TECH_V110_S0598_P001.txt (980 words)

	On Point : Pursuing the Innovation Frontier - Pursuing the Innovation Frontier
		Charles Vest stepped down as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month.
		Now, in a new book, Vest has compiled a series of essays he wrote during his tenure as president of MIT in which he continues to advocate for the critical role top universities play in keeping America at the forefront of global innovation.
		Charles Vest, former president of MIT, served on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in Republican and Democratic administrations, author of the new book "Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities."
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2005/01/20050106_b_main.asp (295 words)

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