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Space Administration announces a 

forthcoming meeting of the Aerospace 

Safety Advisory Panel. 

DATES: Thursday, October 5, 2017, 10:15 

a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Local Time. 

ADDRESSES: NASA Johnson Space 

Center, Room 966, 2101 NASA Parkway, 

Building 1, Houston, TX 77058. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Evette Whatley, Aerospace Safety 

Advisory Panel Administrative Officer, 

NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 

20546, (202) 358–4733, or email at 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel 

(ASAP) will hold its Fourth Quarterly 

Meeting for 2017. This discussion is 

pursuant to carrying out its statutory 

duties for which the Panel reviews, 

identifies, evaluates, and advises on 

those program activities, systems, 

procedures, and management activities 

that can contribute to program risk. 

Priority is given to those programs that 

involve the safety of human flight. The 

agenda will include: 

• Updates on the Exploration Systems 

Development 

• Updates on the Commercial Crew 

Program 

• Updates on the International Space 

Station Program 

The meeting will be open to the 

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room. Seating will be on a first-come 

basis. This meeting is also available 

telephonically. Any interested person 

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stephanie.m.castillo@nasa.gov, or by fax 

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3341 by September 25, 2017. Foreign 

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September 21, 2017: Full name; gender; 

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meeting. 

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5-minutes in length. To do so, members 

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Whatley at evette.whatley@nasa.gov or 

at (202) 358–4733 at least 48 hours in 

advance. Any member of the public is 

permitted to file a written statement 

with the Panel at the time of the 

meeting. Verbal presentations and 

written comments should be limited to 

the subject of safety in NASA. It is 

imperative that the meeting be held on 

this date to accommodate the 

scheduling priorities of the key 

participants. 

Patricia D. Rausch, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration. 

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practitioners, researchers, policymakers, 

and the public. 

The Survey of Graduate Students and 

Postdoctorates in Science and 

Engineering (GSS), sponsored by NCSES 

within NSF and the National Institutes 

of Health, is designed to comply with 

legislative mandates by providing 

information on the characteristics of 

graduate students and postdoctorates 

appointees (postdocs) in science, 

engineering and health (SEH) fields. The 

GSS, which originated in 1966 and has 

been conducted annually since 1972, is 

a census of all departments in SEH 

fields within academic institutions with 

graduate programs in the United States. 

The GSS is the only national survey 

that collects information on the 

characteristics of graduate enrollment 

for specific SEH disciplines at the 

department level. It collects information 

on ethnicity and race, citizenship, sex, 

sources of support, mechanisms of 

support, and enrollment status for 

graduate students; information on 

postdocs by ethnicity and race, 

citizenship, sex, sources of support, 

mechanism of support, doctorate type 

and degree origin; and information on 

other doctorate-holding non-faculty 

researchers by gender and doctorate 

type. To improve coverage of postdocs, 

the GSS also periodically collects 

information on the ethnicity and race, 

sex, citizenship, source of support, field 

of research for the postdocs employed in 

Federally Funded Research and 

Development Centers (FFRDCs). The 

data are solicited under the authority of 

the National Science Foundation Act of 

1950, as amended, and the Privacy Act 

of 1974. All information will be used for 

statistical purposes only. Participation 

in the survey is voluntary. 

Starting in 2017, the GSS will be 

redesigned to improve the data utility, 

data reporting, and to reduce response 

burden. The redesign changes to be 

implemented include: (1) Separate 

reporting of enrollment and financial 

support data for master’s and doctoral 

students; (2) reporting of data based on 

the Classification of Instructional 

Programs (CIP) codes for the 

departments; and (3) expanding the 

institutional use of file transfers for data 

submission, instead of manual entry of 

data in the GSS Web survey instrument. 

The redesigned data collection will not 

ask new questions but the primary 

method used to report the graduate 

student enrollment and financial 

support data will change for the 

institutions. 

The initial GSS data request will be 

sent to the designated respondent 

(School Coordinator) at each academic 

institution in the fall. The School 

Coordinator may upload a file with 

requested data on the GSS Web site, 

which will automatically aggregate the 

data and populate the cells of the Web 

survey instrument for each eligible unit 

(departments, programs, research 

centers and health care facilities). 

The School Coordinator will be also 

able to upload partial data (e.g., student 

enrollment information) and delegate 

the provision of other data (e.g., 

financial support information) to 

appropriate unit respondents at their 

institution. The GSS institutions which 

do not want to upload data files will be 

able to complete the survey through 

manual entry of data in the Web survey 

instrument as in the past. 

Use of the Information: The GSS data 

are routinely provided to Congress and 

other Federal agencies. The GSS 

institutions are major users of the GSS 

data, along with professional societies 

such as the American Association of 

Universities, Association of American 

Medical Colleges, and the Carnegie 

Foundation. Graduate enrollment and 

postdoc data are often used in reports by 

the national media. The GSS (along with 

other academic sector surveys from both 

NCSES and the National Center of 

Education Statistics) is one of the inputs 

into the NCSES data system, which 

provides access to science and 

engineering (S&E) statistical data from 

U.S. academic institutions. Among other 

uses, this online data system is used by 

NSF to review changing enrollment 

levels to assess the effects of NSF 

initiatives, to track graduate student 

support patterns and to analyze 

participation in S&E fields by targeted 

groups for all disciplines or for selected 

disciplines and for selected groups of 

institutions. 

NSF will publish statistics from the 

survey in several reports, including the 

National Science Board’s Science and 

Engineering Indicators and NCSES’ 

Women, Minorities and Persons with 

Disabilities in Science and Engineering. 

These reports will be made available 

electronically on the NSF Web site. A 

public use file is also made available. 

Expected Respondents: The GSS is a 

census of all eligible academic 

institutions in the U.S. with graduate 

programs in SEH fields. The estimated 

total number of respondents surveyed in 

2017 survey is 15,972 departments or 

programs in about 826 schools within 

700 SEH graduate degree-granting 

institutions. The response rate is 

calculated on the number of 

departments that respond to the survey. 

NCSES expects the response rate to 

remain around 99 percent. 

Estimate of Burden: The amount of 

time it takes to complete the GSS data 

varies dramatically across institutions, 

and depends to a large degree on the 

number of reporting units, and the 

extent to which the school’s records are 

centrally stored and computerized. It 

also depends on the number of 

institutions using the manual data entry 

or the file upload option to provide the 

GSS data. Based on the Pilot data 

collection conducted during the 2016 

GSS that was designed to test the 

feasibility of the GSS redesign, a large 

majority of the institutions are expected 

to use the file upload options to submit 

data. 

Burden estimate calculations are 

based on the survey completion times 

reported by the 2016 Pilot GSS 

respondents, as compared to their 

completion times reported in the 2015 

GSS. Because completion time differs by 

reporting institution type, burden is 

estimated separately based on three 

types of institutions and the proportion 

they constitute in the GSS frame— 

institutions enrolling only master’s 

students, institutions enrolling both 

master’s and doctoral students with 15 

or fewer reporting units, and 

institutions enrolling both master’s and 

doctoral students with more than 15 

reporting units (see Table 1). 

TABLE 1—EXPECTED COMPOSITION OF 2017 GSS FRAME

Institution type Number of 

schools Percent 

Master’s Only ........................................................................................................................................................... 339 41.0 

Master’s/Doctorate: 15 or fewer units ..................................................................................................................... 205 24.8 

Master’s/Doctorate: More than 15 units .................................................................................................................. 282 34.2 

Total .................................................................................................................................................................. 826 100.0 


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Burden estimates for each reporting 

institution type are shown in Table 2. 

TABLE 2—BURDEN ESTIMATES FOR THE 2017 GSS 

School type 

Respondents 

(number of 

schools) 

Average 

burden 

(hours) 

Total burden 

(hours) 

Master’s Only ............................................................................................................................... 339 5.9 2,000 

Master’s/Doctorate: 15 or fewer units ......................................................................................... 205 17.1 3,506 

Master’s/Doctorate: More than 15 units ...................................................................................... 282 86.6 24,421 

FFRDCs ....................................................................................................................................... 43 3.7 159 

Estimated total ...................................................................................................................... 869 ........................ 30,086 

The number of units in the 

subsequent survey cycle will include 

the institutions in the previous year 

plus an approximate 1 percent increase 

in institutions. The FFRDC postdoc data 

collection will take place in 2017 and 

2019, and the estimated burden for 

those years will increase by 159 hours 

from 43 FFRDCs (based on 100 percent 

response rate in 2015 with the average 

burden of 3.7 hours per FFRDC) to a 

total of 30,086 and 30,738 hours, 

respectively (see Table 3). Estimates of 

the 2018 GSS burden are 30,262 hours. 

An additional 800 hours across three 

years are requested to conduct 

methodological testing. 

TABLE 3—TOTAL BURDEN ESTIMATES FOR 2017–19 GSS 

Survey cycle 

Respondents 

(number of 

schools) 

Total burden 

(hours) 

2017 GSS ................................................................................................................................................................ 869 30,086 

GSS Institutions ................................................................................................................................................ 826 29,927 

FFRDCs ............................................................................................................................................................ 43 159 

2018 GSS ................................................................................................................................................................ 836 30,262 

2019 GSS ................................................................................................................................................................ 888 30,738 

GSS Institutions ................................................................................................................................................ 845 30,579 

FFRDCs ............................................................................................................................................................ 43 159 

Future methodological testing (across all 3 years) ................................................................................................. ........................ 800 

Total estimated burden ..................................................................................................................................... 2,593 91,886 

Estimated average annual burden .......................................................................................................................... 864 30,629 

The total estimated respondent 

burden of the GSS, including 800 hours 

for the methodological studies, will be 

91,886 hours over the 3-survey 

clearance period. 

Dated: September 14, 2017. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

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