The Changing Environment for Biological Research and Graduate Education in Universities, to be held at Pennsylvania State U., University Park, PA March 12, 1996

该奖项为一个小型研讨会提供支持，以考虑公众和政府如何看待研究型大学在社会中的角色，以及大学及其教师如何看待他们的角色，这些变化对美国国家科学基金会的影响。虽然这种变化是正常和健康的，但越来越多的变化动力来自联邦机构对教师研究的支持缺乏增长，加上越来越重视教学和改变毕业生的就业模式。近年来电子信息存储和交换的迅速发展提供了另一个重要动力。研讨会将汇集教师、行政人员和学生，提供有关这些因素和其他因素的影响的信息，以及关于政府和大学实践中适当的变化的信息。＊＊＊

9633094 Federoff This award provides support for a small workshop to consider the implications for NSF of changes underway in how both the public and the government view the role of research universities in society, and how, in turn, the universities and their faculty view their roles. Although such change is normal and healthy, increasingly the impetus for change comes from lack of growth in support for faculty research by Federal agencies joined with increased emphasis on teaching and changing patterns of employment among graduates. Recent and rapid development of electronic information storage and exchange provide another important impetus. The workshop will bring together faculty, administrators and students to provide information about the effects of these and other factors, and on the kinds of change in government and university practices that are appropriate responses. ***