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<p class=kicker1 style='background:white'><span class=dateline><b><font size=1
color=white face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:120%;
font-family:Arial'>INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION, June 13</span></font></b></span><font
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.6pt;margin-right:4.5pt;
margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:110%;background:white'><b><font
size=5 color="#ee5018" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:15.5pt;
line-height:110%;font-family:Arial;color:#EE5018;font-weight:bold'>Boost
Proposed for Science Education<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.05in;margin-right:4.5pt;
margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:120%;background:white'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Arial;color:black'>A House of Representatives subcommittee
Thursday unanimously approved spending increases for agencies including the
National Science Foundation and the Commerce Department’s National
Institute of Standards and Technology, increasing their share over last
year’s amount and shifting some of their focus from research to education-related
programs. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.05in;margin-right:4.5pt;
margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:120%;background:white'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies signed off on the $56.8 billion
bill, which would fund the agencies under the panel’s jurisdiction for
the 2009 fiscal year. The markup amount is about $5 billion over last
year’s enacted funding level and more than $3.1 billion above <a
href="http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/05/scibudget" target="_blank">President
Bush’s budget request for the year</a>. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.V.),
the subcommittee’s chairman, said that the allocation provided to the
subcommittee by the full Appropriations Committee permitted an increase in
spending on climate change research and aeronautics, as well as other areas
“in which the [president’s] budget request was inadequate,”
he said. A spokesman for Mollohan said that this year’s bill is adjusting
its funding priorities in certain areas.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.05in;margin-right:4.5pt;
margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:120%;background:white'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Arial;color:black'>“Under Chairman Mollohan’s
leadership, the Subcommittee </span></font><b><font size=2 color=red
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:
Arial;color:red;font-weight:bold'>shifted about $50 million from research and
related activities to an emphasis on education activities</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Arial;color:black'>,” the spokesman said in an e-mail.
“The $50 million shift was made in recognition of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
need for robust investments in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
education. Specifically, these new investments are focused on Noyce
Scholarships, math and science partnerships and climate change education
grants.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.05in;margin-right:4.5pt;
margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:120%;background:white'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship
program of the NSF enables colleges and universities to encourage math, science
and engineering majors to become teachers in high-risk K-12 schools.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.05in;margin-right:4.5pt;
margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:120%;background:white'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The subcommittee’s bill would
appropriate some $26 billion for science, technology and innovation spending
— the cornerstone of President Bush’s American Competitiveness
Initiative, which was enacted by the America COMPETES Act but hasn’t yet
been fully funded — an increase of $1.7 billion over fiscal year 2008.
The NSF would receive $6.9 billion, a 13 percent increase; the bill would
provide $785 million for NIST, restoring proposed cuts to a technology enhancement
program, Mollohan said at the markup session.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.05in;margin-right:4.5pt;
margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:120%;background:white'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:
120%;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Further details on the subcommittee’s
bill probably will not be available until the full Appropriations Committee
meets to draft its version of the bill next Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=tagline1 style='background:white'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:9.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:
Arial'>— <a href="mailto:andy.guess@insidehighered.com"><font
color=black><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Andy Guess</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><i><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black;font-style:italic'>The original story and user comments can
be viewed online at <a
href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/13/commerce">http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/13/commerce</a>.</span></font></i><font
color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face="Monotype Corsiva"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>Linda Mason, Ed.D.</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Regents for Higher
Education</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:lmason@osrhe.edu">lmason@osrhe.edu</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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