Word: nsf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pattullo's Center for the Behavioral Sciences withdrew an application for re-search grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) after the Project was publicized. Without official Harvard endorsement of the Project, Pattullo has said, individual Harvard participants "would he in a 'beggars at the table' position-wholly dependent on the M.I.T. group...
March 7: Harvard got a cheering letter from the National Science Foundation announcing that the NSF had boosted its 1969 grants to Harvard by $300,000. But the increase was just enough to offset previous cuts and barely brought the NSF grant total up to the 1968 level...
...Administration ran into another Federal funding problem. The National Science Foundation turned down Harvard's request to restore some of the money cut out of the 1969 NSF budget. Harvard said the money was necessary to maintain "a liveable level of project research...
...research and development--an eighth of the total federal budget. Only 9 per cent (or 13 per cent if university-run federal contract research laboratories are included) of this research money went to universities. The bulk of it (61 per cent) went to private industry. The National Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1952, only barely coordinates the dispersal of these funds. When Congress approves an agency's total budget with its research estimates, it is hardly ever concerned with whom the research money is going to (except obviously in the case of enormous contracts that may benefit a congressman...
Last spring, in reaction to Columbia and other campus eruptions, Congress attached several "antiriot" amendments to student aid legislation. The first of these was included in the Independent Offices Appropriations Act, which was signed into law October 8, 1968. It applies only to NSF funds, denying them to individuals who refuse to "obey a lawful regulation on order of such institution that such refusal was of a serious nature and contributed to the disruption of the administration of such institution, then the institution shall deny any further payment to, or for the benefit of, such individual...