Founding of the Center for Space Research at MIT with a sustaining university research grant from NASA.
The elite Russell Group of universities welcomed the plans, though the Million+ group of new universities said it was "unlikely" that the proposals would sustain university funding in the long-term and expressed concerns over social mobility.
Will their [students'] knowledge base be one that sustains university attendance?
Learning how to engage in productive interdisciplinary dialogues while remaining grounded in one's own field is critical, Bahr says, to sustaining universities as places that give students a multi-dimensional education with depth and breadth.
However, until colleagues accept that they are not self-employed, the corrosive and unhelpful attitude to colleagues who are prepared to step up and try to meet the challenges of management will persist and undermine our ability to sustain universities as beacons of intellectual endeavour.
He received a fellowship from the University of Chicago (1927), where he took his Ph.D. (1931), and publication of his thesis, The Negro Family in Chicago (1932), sustained the university's interest in his work on the black family.
David Tidmarsh, the vice-chancellor of Anglia Ruskin, which has campuses in Cambridge and Chelmsford, said: "It is our vision to create a self-sustaining university campus for the city around which a reinvigorated business infrastructure can thrive".
Now, with searches under way for new presidents at Hunter and City Colleges and concern about the ability of public financing to sustain the university in an increasingly competitive academic world, that is changing.
In his letter to the students announcing their suspension, vice-chancellor Farthing said they had represented "a threat to the safety or well being of students, staff or visitors", and "a potential hazard to sustaining the university's policies on health and safety".
We can sustain a university system that judges its success based on how fully it benefits the citizens of its state, not on its relative exclusivity.
