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3 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Public Policy Vantage Point
3 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Public Policy Vantage Point
Pages 35-40
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AS Henry Kissinger said, "The reason that university politics is so fierce is because the stakes are so small." One of the things that we must constantly keep in mind in our universities, in agriculture, and in our nation is that when we divide the pie between competing groups, we draw artificial lines of demarcation. As the president of a university, I never could understand exactly where the line between chemistry and biology existed or why the battles were so fierce between those on either side of the line.
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With a massive economic investment approaching 2 percent of our gross national product, we developed the Marshall Plan for Europe and the Truman Doctrine for Asia. The Marshall Plan was not just an application of money to solve a problem, however; it was a stimulus to those countries to do what they could to rebuild their infrastructures, to educate and train their young people and work force, to develop modern technologies and manufacturing skills, and to reinvest their own resources in themselves.
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Nye, Jr., Admiral Bobby Inman, and others have analyzed Americas resources and strengths, and they report that there is no doubt that, properly employed, the United States can be the dominant economic force in the world and can benefit from partnerships not only within this country but throughout the world. The appetites of less developed countries for agricultural goods will increase as they are stimulated to develop their economies.
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Many people remember the lines that developed in front of filling stations all across the United States as the oil embargo put a crimp into the domestic economy. Everyone said, "Why haven't we thought of thls7 Why haven't we done something?
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inventor to license his or her invention overseas and watch it come back onto the market in this country than it is to go through the hurdles that are placed in the way of an inventor in the United States. We need to find ways of letting government help to clear the line of scrimmage, to "block" for U.S.
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Then we establish a base to succeed in those efforts. In the United States, we have a great opportunity to harness our inventive genius to the marketplace.
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