Word: supportables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Militant radicals have been winning varying degrees of sympathy from a much wider group of concerned and troubled young people. The amount of support the latter give changes with the issues--goes up and down almost from day to day. The revolutionaries search continuously for issues to win support from their nonmilitant colleagues in order to increase their own following and to achieve their basic purpose, which they acknowledge quite frankly is simply to extend "the movement." By this they mean to foster a revolution which they assume they are leading. They have been fairly successful in recent years...
Federal funds are coming into universities today by two major routes--support for scientific research and scholarship aid. And to understand what kind of "direct control" the federal government has exerted on universities with its funding, we must understand the separate political phenomena of the two routes...
...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 in these instances, because the agencies have a true stake in university research...
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...
...instance, if a married woman has to help support children, it might seem extravagant to give up a job to try to make movies, since she would not know whether or not she would be successful. But the Institute, by choosing her as a Scholar to make movies for a year, not only boosts her financially, but proves to her and to the world that it things she's doing something worthwhile. Also, given the year for her projects, she will presumably complete a movie within that time, and have tangible proof of her talent...