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Communications from the Chair

Core Mission

Mary C. Fuller

No professional academic will have any trouble thinking of reasonable topics for complaint. There are always plenty of pebbles and even real boulders in our professional paths, and perpetual work to be done in moving them aside. Yet whatever we may say around the water cooler it is equally and more broadly true that American universities and the American research enterprise are major national assets. ... The rest of this and other communications can be found on the Communications from the Chair page.