But what is being lost, and certainly in danger of being lost, arguably being lost, is a public mission with regard to the higher education system intheUnitedStates - both the private and thepublic sector.
Robert Reich : I do want to talk tonight about an issue that is very near and dear and of concern to me and it is basically about higher educationinthepublic sphere intheUnitedStates.
And that is the close and increasingly close collaboration between public higher education and indeed much of private higher educationintheUnitedStates and private industry.
Now if you look at the statements given by public officials and by university presidents and by university executives generally intheUnitedStates during those years there is unmistakably a public mission to higher education.
My father is retired from theUnitedStates Air Force and my mother has dedicated her life to working inpubliceducation, often in very challenging school districts.