The University and Ethical Dimensions of Scientific Progress
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K-12 Educational Standards

Standards for Grade(s): 11

United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century

11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War II America.

4. Analyze new federal government spending on defense, welfare, interest on the national debt, and federal and state spending on education, including the California Master Plan.

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California State Board of Education Content Standards

 

First Aired: 4/21/2003
57 minutes

Harold Shapiro is the President Emeritus of Princeton University and the University of Michigan and the only president to have been listed by Change magazine as one of the most influential university presidents in both the 1980s and the 1990s. He served as a member of President George Herbert Walker Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and was appointed by President Clinton to chair the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. The Clark Kerr Lecture Series provides an opportunity for leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on major higher education policy issues. (#7290)