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From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Subject: Gathering Storm Follow-On Report on Higher Education
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In 2005 the National Academies issued a major report titled "Rising 
Above the Gathering Storm" that looked at the future of higher 
education in the United States in the context of national economic 
competitiveness. Dan Atkins discussed this work at a keynote talk in 
one of our meetings.

Today, the Academies have published an update to this report, 
authored by the surviving members of the same committee (except for 
two who currently hold cabinet positions in the Obama 
administration), titled "Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: 
Rapidly Approaching Category 5".

There's a press release at the National Academies site:

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12999

and the report itself can be downloaded as a free PDF from:

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12999

Scary but important reading.


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI