Word: research
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...permanent government is interested in buying a product from universities--research. It is not "aiding" higher education; the Congress "aids" it through NDEA and the Higher Education Act. The permanent government is relatively insulated from external political pressure; Congress is not insulated at all. In an examination of instances of direct federal control over higher education through the weight of funding (the NDEA oath, for example) we find that it has been Congress, not he permanent government, that has been involved--even though the Congressional share of total support is very small. The permanent government has consistently opposed Congress...
...MAIN defender of the permanent government's interests is Robert H. Finch, who apparently has had some influence on President Nixon. Finch's Department of Health, education, and Welfare is the top purchaser of university research, and Finch has consistently opposed legislation that would aggravate the government's relations with the university...
Despite all of this powerful support, the university is facing some serious problems. First, the non-research share of federal funds to universities is rapidly increasing. In 1962, scholarship and miscellaneous federal support accounted for only 5 per cent of total federal funds to universities. Today, it is over one-third. Recent plans for more federal aid, such as the Carnegie Commission proposals, would involve Congress further. Second, there is no doubt that public pressure for some kind of an end to university disorders is increasing. Americans want their problems over right away, and they still believe that getting tough...
...however, this experience with Congress may be more helpful than anyone realizes. Suddenly, universities are waking up to the enormous costs they are paying for federal funding. And, perhaps, if the government cracks down and cuts off research funds, the university will be on its way to being free again. The sit-ins will have worked again. The Federal government will be driven out of the university. And that cannot...
PERHAPS the Institute's greatest service to American women all across the country is through its Guidance Laboratory and Research Center. More and more women want to combine marriages and careers. Many factors contribute to this desire for a combination: early marriages; longer life expectancy, which leads to an average of 30 years of life after the last child is 21--as compared with 14 years in the 1890's; automation; more college educations. Since educational institutions and employers haven't yet adjusted to this new resource, women are finding it difficult to get proper training, and find flexible jobs...