Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ATOUGH, lean budget" is what Secretary of Education William J. Bennett has called the Education Department's higher education funding requests for Fiscal Year (FY) 1988. Most university representatives agree with that characterization, but with little else in the proposed budget...
...previous years, the Administration budget calls for drastic cuts in student aid. Since the 1960s, a basic assumption of federal policy has been that the more people gain access to higher education, the better off we will be as a nation--hence the many federal grant and loan programs that have brought higher education within the reach of those who would not otherwise have been able to afford...
...budget proposal calls for a reversal of this trend. They would eliminate many of the established sources of financial aid, replacing them with an unsubsidized loan program that would force students to incur exorbitantly high debt levels in order to finance their education. The Reagan Administration attempts to justify this proposed change with the assertion that students, as the beneficiaries of a college education, should shoulder the major financial responsibility themselves...
...PROPOSED budget mirrors a society responding to conflicting demands. On the one hand, there is the still urgent need to bring the huge federal deficit under control. On the other hand, there is the problem of buoying up sinking U.S. competitiveness and reversing America's trade imbalance, difficulties which the Administration has addressed by requesting more money for scientific and technological research...
...what are long-term problems by counting on large-scale research projects to produce profitable spin-offs, while at the same time reducing federal contributions to student financial aid. Will Congress accept the Administration's priorities or will it make fundamental changes? The expectation in Washington is that the budget will be altered extensively in the months ahead before it is approved...