Word: pifer
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Whether public or private, most U.S. colleges are in such desperate financial straits that by the year 2000 they will be almost totally dependent on the Federal Government for support. So last week argued Alan Pifer, president of New York's Carnegie Corporation, in a frank and chilling analysis of the nation's academic future. Speaking in Minneapolis, Pifer warned that it was high time for educators in the public and private sectors to stop their selfish factional disputes and get together to help shape new national policies on which federal funding must be based...
...Carnegie, Alan Pifer has been moved up as acting president to succeed John Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Rockefeller's President J. George Harrar keeps the post he took over from Dean Rusk...
...development, grants to improve university graduate programs in science and engineering, interdisciplinary research in biochemistry and biophysics, much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Believing that they should "never spend a cent of very precious money if someone else can take care of the project," as Pifer says, the foundations welcome the federal invasion...
...foundations are now free to turn to bold, short-term tryouts of imaginative projects, which Government cannot tackle, since, as Pifer puts it, "failures can't be tolerated" in tax-supported programs. Another expanding field for foundations is providing an objective analysis of how the Government programs are functioning. Government, argues Heald, "is not the best judge of its own performance-the painstaking job of investigation and analysis can be done only by the scholar...