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Subject: Important infor concerning NSF policy
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Subject: 3.735  FYI: NSF
 
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 18:35:26 CDT
From: beatrice@lex.ling.nwu.edu (Beatrice Santorini)
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Subject: nsf funding in the new world order
 
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 18:35:26 CDT
From: beatrice@lex.ling.nwu.edu (Beatrice Santorini)
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Subject: nsf funding in the new world order
 
UPDATE   UPDATE   UPDATE   ---29 September 1992---    UPDATE   UPDATE   UPDATE
 
***  BASIC  RESEARCH  IN  PERIL  at the  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) ***
 
The Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Walter Massey, has
expressed clear intent to redirect the NSF away from its mission in basic
research toward a new mission to "accept a major role in fostering links
between research and technology" to foster product development and assist
industry. As a result of his efforts, Congress passed a report with language
similar to the original Senate report appearing below (at the bottom). This
was attached to a large VA/HUD/IA appropriations bill, consequently receiving
very little attention, and was not publicized.
 
All of this comes at the urging of the National Science Board (NSB), the agency
overseeing NSF. The NSB report is also excerpted below. James Duderstadt,
President of the University of Michigan, is chairman of NSB.
 
A special commission was created to study how to integrate NSF efforts with
the needs of industry. This "Special Commission on the Future of NSF" has
been given only 75 days from its first meeting to come up with a final report.
They are accepting input through October 15 -- THAT'S JUST 2 WEEKS FROM NOW
This whole process has not been well advertised in the scientific community,
and most of the scientific community does not know about it!
 
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WHAT YOU MUST DO:            remember, input deadline is Oct 15
 
1) PASS THE WORD AROUND-- share with faculty members in all interested
departments (physics, chemistry, atmospheric & oceanic sciences, earth
sciences, math, and various humanities including linguistics, poli. sci. and
anthropology). Share with YOUR DEANS AND RESEARCH ADMINISTRATORS
 
2) WRITE TO THE COMMITTEE:
Special Commission on the Future of NSF, Rm. 546
National Science Foundation
1800 G St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20550    fax: (202)-357-7346
 
3) TALK TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS:         *=member of National Science Board
William Danforth, Co-Chair.   Chancellor of Washington U. in St.Louis
Robert Galvin, Co-Chair.      Former CEO of Motorola, and a lawyer.
Jacqueline Barton             prof. of chemistry at Cal Tech University
Lindy Boggs                   former U.S. Representative from Louisiana
Lewis Branscomb               prof. of public service at Harvard University
Peter Eisenberger             director of Materials Institute at Princeton
Marye Anne Fox *              prof. of chemistry at U. of Texas
C. Peter Magrath              president, National Association of State
				  Univerisities and Land-Grant Colleges
Ruben Mettler                 former CEO of TRW
Percy Pierre               research vice-president at Michigan State University
Frank Rhodes *                president of Cornell University
Earl Richardson               president of Morgan State University
Ian Ross *                    president emeritus of AT&T Bell Labs
William Rutter                CEO of Chiron Corporation
Donna Shalala                 Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
 
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Data and definitions from Science and Engineering Indicators, 10th Edition,
NSB-91-1, issued by the National Science Board:
 
Basic research: Basic research has as its objective a fuller knowledge or
understanding of the subject under study, without specific applications in
mind. In industry, basic research is defined as research that advances
scientific knowledge but does not have specific commercial objectives,
although such investigations may be in fields of present or potential
interest to the reporting company.
 
Applied research: Applied research is directed toward gaining knowledge or
understanding necessary for determining the means by which a recognized and
specific need may be met. In industry, applied research includes investigations
directed to the discovery of new scientific knowledge having specific
commercial objectives with respect to products, proceses, or services.
 
U.S. R&D funds in millions of constant 1982 dollars (dollars adjusted by GNP)
1=total R&D(sum of 2,3,4)  2=basic research  3=applied research  4=development
FFRDC=Federally Funded Research and Development Center    *=preliminary
 
	       -----SOURCE OF FUNDS------     -------PERFORMER OF WORK---------
	        fed. indus- univer-  non-     fed. indus- univer-         non-
  year   total  govt  try   sities profits    govt  try   sities  FFRDC profits
1 1990* 110470 48591  56757  3376  1746      12213  79173  12137  3641  3305
2 1990*  16636 10357   3441  1972   865       1972   3609   7851  1896  1307
3 1990*  25742  9622  14337  1161   623       2883  17514   3675   569  1102
4 1990*  68092 28612  38979   243   258       7358  58050    611  1176   897
 
1 1980   73255 34557  36065  1574  1059       9006  51919   7171  2650  2508
2 1980    9922  6963   1485   939   535       1395   1546   4769  1326   887
3 1980   16232  7530   7809   525   368       2931   9858   2004   594   846
4 1980   47101 20065  26771   110   156       4680  40516    399   730   776
 
International Research & Development, as a % of Gross National Product
1/2/3: 1=total R&D, 2=non-defense R&D, 3=% of total R&D on basic research
 
19xx  United               West                 United
year  States    Japan     Germany    France     Kingdom      Italy     Sweden
75 2.2/1.6/13 2.0/2.0/12 2.2/2.1/26 1.8/1.5/NA 2.1/1.5/14 0.9/0.9/20 1.7/1.4/NA
76 2.2/1.6/13 2.0/2.0/15 2.1/2.0/25 1.8/1.4/NA  NA/ NA/13 0.9/0.8/20  NA/ NA/NA
77 2.2/1.6/13 2.0/2.0/15 2.1/2.0/25 1.8/1.4/21  NA/ NA/13 0.9/0.9/20 1.8/1.5/18
78 2.1/1.6/14 2.0/2.0/16 2.2/2.1/22 1.8/1.4/NA 2.2/1.6/13 0.8/0.8/19  NA/ NA/NA
79 2.2/1.6/14 2.1/2.1/15 2.4/2.3/21 1.8/1.4/21  NA/ NA/13 0.8/0.8/16 1.9/1.7/18
80 2.3/1.7/13 2.2/2.2/14 2.4/2.3/21 1.8/1.4/21  NA/ NA/13 0.9/0.8/15  NA/ NA/NA
81 2.4/1.8/13 2.3/2.3/13 2.5/2.4/22 2.0/1.5/21 2.4/1.7/13 1.0/1.0/15 2.4/2.2/23
82 2.5/1.8/13 2.4/2.4/13 2.6/2.5/21 2.1/1.6/21  NA/ NA/NA 1.1/1.0/15  NA/ NA/NA
83 2.6/1.9/13 2.6/2.5/13 2.5/2.4/21 2.1/1.7/21 2.2/1.6/NA 1.1/1.1/16 2.6/2.4/NA
84 2.7/1.9/13 2.6/2.6/13 2.6/2.5/NA 2.2/1.7/20  NA/ NA/NA 1.0/ NA/16  NA/ NA/NA
85 2.8/2.0/12 2.8/2.8/12 2.8/2.7/18 2.3/1.8/20 2.3/1.6/NA 1.1/1.1/16 3.0/2.6/20
86 2.8/1.9/14 2.8/2.8/13 2.8/2.7/NA 2.2/1.8/20 2.4/1.7/NA 1.1/1.1/17  NA/ NA/NA
87 2.8/1.9/14 2.8/2.8/13 2.9/2.8/19 2.3/1.8/20 2.3/1.8/NA 1.2/1.2/NA 3.0/2.7/23
88 2.7/1.9/14 2.9/2.9/13 2.9/2.7/NA 2.3/1.8/23 2.2/1.7/NA 1.3/1.3/NA  NA/ NA/NA
 
Note how basic research is a small fraction of the total research, and is
supported primarily by the federal government, with most of the work being
done at universities. Basic research is the underpinning of the advancement
of science, the very foundation of technology, and we get all this for a mere
0.4% of the GNP. But the total pot for NSF is unlikely to increase
commensurately with the new demands on it, so reductions in basic research
are inevitable unless we can convince the Committee to restore basic science
as the principle mission of NSF. In 1985, NSF was ordered to support
"fundamental engineering research" but the budget was not increased to
accomodate the expanded mission.
 
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