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...that federal research is not intrinsically bad is not to say that its presence in the university has not caused problems. The assertion that good education requires research contains a basic truth which has in some cases been overplayed in much the same way that the need for "national defense" has been used to justify a number of dubious practices. The net effect of this research on Harvard is something I am not qualified to judge. I wish only to say that selective reductions and adjustments in the amount and balance of research which might be suggested by a sober...
Suppose, for example, the University were to decide that science plays too large a role in the university, that a major restructuring should be undertaken, and that all science departments (including research funds, faculty, research assistants and students) should be reduced by one third by 1974. What would happen? Presumably some faculty, choosing to place a high priority on research, would accept positions elsewhere, taking with them some graduate students. No undergraduates would have to leave. Since the reduction in faculty and students would be proportional to the reduction in research money, the financial gap to be filled...
...Federal science research at Harvard is now $50 million and is reduced by $17 million (33 per cent) the "padded" indirect costs would be $10 million maximum, and more likely $4 million. Would that put Harvard in receivership? If Harvard's $1 billion endowment principal were applied to this gap, Harvard wouldn't go broke for 250 years. This obviously oversimplifies the finances involved, because of restrictions on some portions of the endowment, but the comparison places the problem in perspective. New additions to endowment from gifts have avaraged $25.5 million per year in recent years. If the university were...
...dislocated would be viewed as an impediment to restructuring more serious than the loss of Federal funds. Table I FEDERAL SUPPORT OF HIGHER EDUCATION Expenditures (Millions of dollars) percentage 1968 1969 1970 of 1970 actual estimate estimate total Student support $1,455 $1,753 $1,936 39% Academic research 1,434 1,404 1,499 30% Institutional support: 29% Current operations 429 468 538 Facilities and equipment 954 911 934 Teacher training 76 91 92 1% Education research 16 24 31 1% TOTAL...
...Table IV FEDERAL SUPPORT OF RESEARCH IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (in millions of dollars) Expenditures percentage 1968 1969 1970 of total Department or Agency actual est. est. 1970 est. Health, Education and Welfare $653 $592 $666 45% Defense 235 252 275 18% National Science Foundation 207 224 243 16% NASA 151 130 109 7% Atomic Energy Commission 93 94 96 6% Agriculture 61 62 64 4% All other 56 50 66 4% TOTAL...