President Dye has had fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations and the National Endowment for the Humanities. They deeply influence each other. Like society, the Academy is full of contradictions. Higher education is an integral part of society. Nor should it be.
Higher education encompasses society.
It's a powerful laboratory for our students and for our future. There is a powerful need to pass on ancient wisdom and accumulated information. That has to be balanced with the need to assure that students can create genuinely new tools for meeting the world's increasingly complex challenges. In fact, it changes a person's life. Of course we can afford to educate our children, to offer art and music in our public schools.