--- title: MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next... description: MIT President Sally Kornbluth and ASU President Michael Crow discussed the future of university education and research at a Washington Post Live panel.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mit-in-the-media-innovating-and-educating-for-the-next-250-years-of-america-uuul4ipnh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America | daily.dev og:description: MIT President Sally Kornbluth and ASU President Michael Crow discussed the future of university education and research at a Washington Post Live panel.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mit-in-the-media-innovating-and-educating-for-the-next-250-years-of-america-uuul4ipnh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uUUl4ipNh.png og:image:alt: MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT President Sally Kornbluth and ASU President Michael Crow discussed the future of university education and research at a Washington Post Live panel. Kornbluth emphasized the importance of curiosity-driven, federally funded basic research as the foundation for medical and technological breakthroughs, warning that frozen federal funds threaten the innovation pipeline. On AI, she advocates a human-centric approach where students use AI as an augmentation tool while maintaining foundational STEM skills, strong writing, and ethical grounding. She also highlighted MIT's economic impact — over 30,000 spinout companies and an economic footprint equivalent to the 14th largest GDP — and its accessibility initiatives including free tuition for families earning under $200,000. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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