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...many fronts, Coddington and his fellow education lobbyists have already succeeded in countering Budget Director David A. Stockman's campaign to reduce or eliminate programs. For example, Congress decided against proposed spending ceilings for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF), which together support about 90 per cent of biomedical research at universities. In the case of NIH, researchers have long opposed any specific spending limits, fearing that restrictions could subject the institutes to political pressure to pursue particular fields. Calling the decision a "major victory," Coddington points out that the continuing absence of ceilings also...
...measures Congress took up again last week after returning from recess included small increases for both the NSF and the NIH, which last year spent $3.56 billion and $1.04 billion, respectively. The National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities each received far smaller cuts in their budgets than Stockman had asked for. The Museum Services Administration, which Stockman had sought to eliminate, received $9.6 million. "Considering where we could have been with some of these things, we escaped in pretty good shape," says Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for research and the allied institutions. The backlog of grant applications...
...some already are. James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology department, has the coming year's money in hand for the nationwide General Social Survey, but 1983 "is still very much up in the air," he says. The $300,000 to $400,000 Davis will need from the NSF to continue his study, considered one of the most important basic data sources in that field, would have to come from a division vulnerable to additional reductions. In general, research in the social sciences and in basic, rather than applied science, will probably face more unpleasant cutbacks...
...board are now considered twice as old as those owned by private corporations. Level funding will lead to continued deterioration of university research over the next ten years, "and that is unquestionably a bad situation," Coddington says. Harvard scientists had expected up to $2 million from a $75 million NSF fund set aside specifically for renovation and new instrumentation, but Reagan killed the authorization last spring. Congress has since allocated $16.5 million for improvements--a "promising symbol," says Leahy--though the action will have little effect on a nationwide shortfall President Bok has estimated at about about $500 million...
Harvard's Economics Department may soon have to contend with some economic problems of its own. If Congress approves the Reagan administration's proposed budget cuts for next year, the department could lose nearly half a million dollars in National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. NSF officials said this week Nearly half the department's faculty members receive NSF grants annually ranging from $40,000 to $80,000, Zvi Griliches, chairman of the department, said this week. He added that "40 per cent of our budget may simply disappear" if the cuts are approved...