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...National Science Foundation has turned down Harvard's request for an increase in its 1969 allotment of NSF funds, which was cut sharply as a part of President Johnson's $6 billion budget reduction...
Harvard had asked NSF to increase immediately its $5.4 million allotment by about $440,000, so that the University could maintain "a liveable level of project research." Harvard had received $5.7 million from NSF in 1968, and had anticipated a 14 per cent increase--instead of the 18 per cent decrease--this year...
...deepest cuts have been made in the basic-research programs of the National Science Foundation, which also provided about 8,000 new fellowships for graduate students last year. Congress sliced $95 million from the NSF projects, a 19% cut from last year's total. The research funds of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were left almost intact, but NASA's support of graduate students was almost abandoned. NASA offered 1,335 new fellowships in 1966, but only about 45 this year. The U.S. Office of Education, which had hoped to begin major demonstration projects in new teaching...
...come to the university and then cut him off," protests Raymond E. Peck, a vice president of the University of Missouri. With commitments already made, the schools claim that they will have to dip into their own operating funds or endowments to keep many of the NSF projects going. The Berkeley mathematics department termed the NSF reductions "outrageous and inequitable," and issued a statement warning the university that the cutbacks would cripple its research and cause staff members to leave...
...students will have to drop out because of a 25% cut in research support. Harvard's Graduate School of Education may have to abandon a promising study of how preschool children develop. Caltech will have to provide at least $500,000 of its own money to keep 80 NSF research projects going...