Word: grantsmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programs. But the Harvard administrators who are responsible for dealing with the U.S. Office of Education also know that the program is not always the most equitable way for the federal government to give jobs to the neediest students. The process through which schools apply for federal funds encourages "grantsmanship," says R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the University's office of fiscal services. Clever administrators can manipulate their applications to obtain large increases in their schools' grants--increases not always justified by the financial need of the students, Gibson says...
...more standardized formula approach" to the problem of dividing funds between schools. Schools' applications will be based only on work-study figures for the year just completed, not on projections of need, which tend to be exaggerated. Gibson says the committee's recommendations will cut down on the grantsmanship involved in applying for work-study funds, and ensure a more equitable distribution of funds among schools...
...when the Congress passes a law that is designed specifically to help the poor, quite often those tax monies tend to move out toward the more wealthy people; the ones who are better organized, more articulate, who understand the complexities of the laws more fully, who are versed in grantsmanship. I want to make sure that that kind of trend is reversed. I believe I can evoke my concerns adequately to the American people with fireside chats and so forth, and there would be a broad support for a change...
...Malek kept all potentially incriminating evidence a comfortable distance from himself. At one point, Sen. Joseph Montoya (D-N.M.) pressed Malek about the potential illegality of a grantsmanship proposal coming out of his office. Malek admitted that the proposal was potentially illegal, but he insisted that a staff member wrote it and said he forgot whether Haldeman had ever seen the proposal...