Word: pifer
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Allen received a measure of the magnitude of his job when President Nixon's task force on education, headed by Carnegie Corporation President Alan Pifer, presented its report urging massive federal spending of up to $1 billion a year to save city schools. Even if he can pry that kind of money out of Congress, Allen is not likely to find much agreement on just how it is to be used. But bets are that whatever his eventual budget, James Allen will wind up spending the money...
...ALAN PIFER, 47, an educator and head of the Carnegie Foundation, is preparing a report on all areas of education, with particular emphasis on methods of federal financing...
...Pifer aired his views before a group largely resistant to that kind of future: the Association of American Colleges, whose 888 members include 730 of the nation's private schools. He conceded that, to many educators, talk of federal dominance in funding and planning sounds like "unAmerican, unconstitutional, and dangerous nonsense." And he agreed that the freedom of private institutions has provided much of the dynamism of higher education. But he also warned his audience of college executives that the nation "can no longer afford the luxury of an unplanned, wasteful, chaotic approach" in which freedom often means "freedom...
...Pifer urged the creation of a long-range planning center for higher education, drawing heavily on university advisers and given authority to guide federal policy. Its first task would be to seek agreement on how federal aid should be distributed. He rejected the idea of broad, unselective grants to all institutions on the ground that this would merely "perpetuate, only on a more costly scale, everything that is wrong" with higher education now. One. of his proposals was for the designation of a few high-quality existing campuses as "national universities," which would be given preferential support for their scholars...
Although educators may regret it, Pifer concluded, the trend toward federal funding is irreversible. The Government supplied nearly one-fourth of the $16.8 billion that all colleges spent last year; by 1975, he predicted, this may climb to 50%. Eventually, he suggested, private donors will give up, or support only highly specialized projects, while federal taxes pick up the main burden and local and state revenues meet the expanding needs of the lower levels of education...