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But of course, we need to point out that it doesn't need to be this
way, right?<br>
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(One footnote on one sign: Study the flights of bees, not drones!)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/2/13 2:26 PM, Niloofar Shambayati
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Karen,
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<div style="">I'm surprised by your rhetorical question, "<span
style="color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:'Times New
Roman';font-size:medium">The future of science and economics
are tied up with the military?" Hasn't warfare always been
the engine of "progress" and served well "the public good?"
No human endeavor has been as successful as advancements in
surgery to put a mutilated fighter back together. Where
would U. of I be without huge grants from merchants of
death? We've been collecting the crumbs in the service of
critical thinking. </span></div>
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style="color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:'Times New
Roman';font-size:medium"><br>
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<div style=""><span
style="color:rgb(35,35,35);font-family:'Times New
Roman';font-size:medium">Niloofar</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Karen
Medina <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com" target="_blank">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div dir="ltr">Several posters were made this evening. One,
for example, says: "Do we love our military industrial
complex more than our critical thinkers?"
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<div>Come join the demonstration to protest this speaker, <span
style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px">Norman
Augustine</span>. Tuesday, April 2, 2013</div>
<div>Meet at 3:30pm at the south door to Beckman. The talk
begins at 4pm</div>
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<div>Turns out he is part of the revolving door between
places like Loockheed-Martin, the Department of the
Defense, Homeland Security<font color="#232323"
face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span
style="border-collapse:collapse">, and the Boy
Scouts.</span></font></div>
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size="3"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br>
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<div><font color="#232323" face="'Times New Roman'"
size="3"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Why is
the University of Illinois, a research one
institution, interested in what he has to say? The
future of science and economics are tied up with the
military? </span></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:11
PM, Karen Medina <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com" target="_blank">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>></span>
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style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New
Roman';color:rgb(35,35,35)">
Former CEO of Lockheed-Martin will tell us how
to envision the future of universities. (see the
description of the event April 2nd)</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New
Roman';color:rgb(35,35,35)">Want to demonstrate
against this? Then meet with a group of people
to make plans: Monday, April 1, 2013 / 7:30pm /
Urbana Free Library basement in the <span
style="font:normal normal normal 13px/normal
Arial"><b>Satterthwaite conference room</b></span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New
Roman';color:rgb(35,35,35)">-----------</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New
Roman';color:rgb(35,35,35)">UIUC Chancellor's
final lecture of the year April 2, 4pm, at
Beckman for "The Research University in the
World of the Future" series will feature Norman
Augustine, the retired CEO of military weapons
maker Lockheed-Martin. </p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New
Roman';color:rgb(35,35,35)">He will "discuss the
idea that universities have to reconfigure
themselves to meet the challenges of the 21st
century."</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New
Roman';color:rgb(35,35,35)">Augustine believes
"universities have to become more introspective
and aware that their ultimate mission is to
serve the public good." I have a feeling many of
us have a very different definition ?of "public
good" than he does.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New
Roman';color:rgb(35,35,35)">----</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)"><i>Engineer
and education advocate Norman Augustine is
next in the Chancellor’s speaker series, “The
</i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.oc.illinois.edu/visioning/series.html"
target="_blank"><span
style="color:rgb(255,102,0)"><i>Research
University in the World of the Future</i></span></a><i>,”
and will speak at 4 p.m. April 2 in the
Beckman Institute auditorium. A reception will
follow in the atrium.</i></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">Norman
Augustine, an acclaimed engineer and the retired
chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, was just
beginning work on his graduate degree at
Princeton University in 1957 when the Soviet
Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial
Earth satellite.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">The
unexpected launch rattled Americans’ post-war
confidence and caused concern that the new
technology would soon be used by other nations
to spy on them or initiate attacks from high
above Earth’s atmosphere.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 12px/normal
Helvetica;background-color:rgb(242,242,242)"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.illinois.edu/ii/13/0321/Augustine,Norman__b.jpg"
target="_blank"><img moz-do-not-send="true"
alt="Augustine,Norman__a.jpg"></a></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 13px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(242,242,242)">Norman
Augustine</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">The
corresponding national response heralded a
technological research and development boom at
research universities across the nation – funded
by the federal government and corporations –
that would lead to the moon landing, the
computer revolution and, eventually, the
Internet.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">It also
confirmed for Augustine, who had been
considering a career as a forest ranger, his
pursuit of a career in the burgeoning field of
aerospace research.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">Fast-forward
nearly 60 years and Augustine says the threat of
being overshadowed by the rest of the world is
greater than ever – and if something isn’t done
quickly, America’s technological pre-eminence
will become a historical footnote.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">“I’ve
had not inconsiderable involvement in issues of
higher education and have become very concerned
about America’s competitiveness in the new
global economy,” he said. “We have to take some
dramatic steps because what is at stake is
nothing less than the American Dream.”</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">But in
contrast to the space-race era, the country’s
toolbox for making those fixes today is in
danger of being severely under-stocked.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">“Companies
used to support research, but today they are
expected to produce results next quarter, not
next decade,” he said.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">Meanwhile,
the other traditional research funding partners,
federal and state governments, have disinvested
from secondary and higher education at an
alarming rate because of the economic downturn,
a corresponding drop in tax receipts and public
debate over the role of government and the
benefits of education.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">“Education
investment goes hand in hand with having a
strong economy and universities are the key to
making the nation more competitive,” he said.
“We have got to enable the development of an
educated citizenry.”</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">Augustine
said universities also have to reconfigure
themselves to meet the challenges of the 21st
century. He said universities have to become
more introspective and aware that their ultimate
mission is to serve the public good.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">“The
problem is, universities in this country and
elsewhere have changed very little in the last
100 years,” he said. “What they teach has
changed, but it’s still being delivered in
basically the same way. We also need to decide
what it is we want our universities to have as
their priorities.”</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">Change
is no longer an option but a requirement, he
said, and competition is coming from every
direction – from the online-course revolution to
rapidly improving university systems overseas.
He said the competition stems from students
seeking a better education value and from a
growing list of alternatives to the traditional
university.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">“Great
universities of the past have been generally
defined by a superb faculty and a fine library,”
he said. “Today you can carry the library in
your back pocket and access faculty from around
the world from your home. The great universities
will survive, but in a different form, and the
lesser universities may not be recognizable a
few years hence. Online education isn’t
equivalent yet, but it’s becoming more and more
equivalent; face-to-face teaching and learning
have value, but how great is that value?”</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">He said
higher education’s challenge reaches far beyond
campus boundaries. For example, secondary
education needs to focus more on science,
technology, engineering and math if the country
is to remain competitive.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">“Part
of the cost of higher education is that many
high school students aren’t prepared when they
get to our universities,” he said.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">Eight
years ago Augustine chaired a commission
studying U.S. competitiveness that issued a
report, “Rising Above the Gathering Storm.” It
recommended significant improvements in K-12
math and science education, more investment in
long-term basic research, strategies to attract
high-tech students and scientists from around
the world, and the creation of programs to
create and sustain incentives for innovation and
research investment.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">In a
2011 article in Forbes magazine, Augustine
offered some disturbing statistics about the
importance America places on academic
excellence:</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)"> U.S.
consumers spend significantly more on potato
chips than the U.S. government devotes to energy
research and development.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)"> In
2009, for the first time, more than half of U.S.
patents were awarded to non-U.S. companies.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)"> China
has replaced the United States as the world’s
number one high-tech exporter.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)"> Between
1996 and 1999, 157 new drugs were approved in
the U.S. Ten years later, despite growing
funding, that number had dropped to 74.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)"> The
World Economic Forum ranks the U.S. 48th in
quality of math and science education.</p>
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:16px;margin-left:0px;font:normal
normal normal 16px/normal
Arial;background-color:rgb(221,227,231)">“Innovation
is the key to survival in an increasingly global
economy,” he concluded in the article. “Today
we’re living off the investments we made over
the past 25 years. We’ve been eating our seed
corn. And we’re seeing an accelerating erosion
of our ability to compete. Charles Darwin is
said to have observed that it is not the
strongest of the species that survives, nor the
most intelligent, but rather the one most
adaptable to change.”</p>
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