2007 Newsletter

Newsletter 2007

Across the nation, universities and the students attending universities are facing some of the toughest challenges they’ve experienced in a long time. State legislatures have pursued a long-term trend of funding ever-smaller percentages of the costs of their universities. On top of that, reduced federal funding for investigator-initiated research, primarily from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundations, has dramatically increased the level of competition and the amount of time each faculty member spends writing grant applications as opposed to doing the work of science. Students are under stress with the cost of undergraduate tuition rising 7-8% each year. Furthermore, NIH has imposed caps on the amount of money that can be charged to support students of graduate training grants.