Government and the Scientific
Workforce
The Science & Engineering Workforce
Project
of the National Bureau of Economic
Research
Sponsored by the Sloan
Foundation
Conference of 23 May
2002
Table
of Contents
I.
Recent Developments
1. Daryl E. Chubin and Willie Pearson, Jr., "Policy for science, people for science," Technology in Society, 24, 2002, 145-154 [page 5] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0160-791X(01)00050-1 2. Ronald L. Meeks, "Changing Composition of Federal Funding for Research and Development and R&D Plant since 1990," InfoBrief, SRS - Division of Science Resources Statistics/National Science Foundation, April 2002 [page 15] http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/infbrief/nsf02315/start.htm 3. Ronald L. Meeks, "FY 2001 Department of Defense Share of Federal R&D Funding Falls to Lowest Level in 22 Years," Data Brief, SRS - Division of Science Resources Statistics/National Science Foundation, 26 February 2001 [page 19] http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/databrf/nsf01319/sdb01319.htm 4. Ronald L. Meeks,
"FY 2002 Budget Requested Large Increases in R&D Funding for Defense
and Health," Data Brief, SRS - Division of Science Resources
Statistics/National Science Foundation,
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/databrf/nsf02300/sdb02300.htm
5. Richard J.
Bennof, "Federal Academic Science and Engineering Obligations Increased 10
Percent in FY 2000, InfoBrief, SRS - Division of Science Resources
Statistics/ National
Science Foundation,
February 2002 [page 26]
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsf02310/start.htm
6. Committee on the Federal Science and Technology Budget and the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, Observations on the President's Fiscal Year 2002 - Federal Science and Technology Budget (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, prepublication copy ca. 2001) [page 30] http://www4.nas.edu/news.nsf/isbn/0309075920?OpenDocument 7. Office of Management and Budget, "Table 7-2: Budget Authority and Outlays: Defense and Nondefense Programs," Administration's FY 2003 Budget Request and Projected Spending [page 54] 8. National
Institutes of Health, "Press Release for the FY 2003 President's Budget,"
http://www.nih.gov/news/budgetfy2003/2003NIHpresbudget.htm 9. Ron Southwick, "Senators Want More Funds for NSF, and Better Management, Too," Chronicle of
Higher Education on-line,
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/05/2002051601n.htm 10. Ron Southwick,
"Lawmakers Push for a Doubling of the NSF's Budget," Chronicle
of
Higher Education
on-line,
http://chronicle.merit.edu/free/2002/05/2002050801t.htm 11. Daniel S.
Greenberg, "Money, More Money, Statistics, and Science," chapter six of
Science ,Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion
(
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14219.ctl
(ordering information)
12. Daniel S. Greenberg, "War, bioterrorism, and the political landscape," The Lancet, vol. 358, December 22/29, 2001 [page 76] http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol358/iss9299/full/llan.358.9299.news.18882.1 13. Daniel S.
Greenberg,
"
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol359/iss9308/full/llan.359.9308.news.20216.1 14. Jeanne Narum, "Thoughts on Project Kaleidoscope," 22-23 October 1999 [page 78] http://www.pkal.org/template2.cfm?c_id=72 15. Paula Stephan, Grant C. Black, James D. Adams, Sharon G. Levin, "Survey of Foreign Recipients of U.S. Ph.D.'s," Science, vol. 295, 22 March 2002 [page 80] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/295/5563/2211c 16. Patrick Healy,
"Panel to assess security risk of foreign students of science," Boston
Globe,
17. Cheryl W.
Thompson, "Visa Panel will Focus on Science," Washington Post,
18. Cheryl W. Thompson, "INS Tracking System Set to Roll: Agency Aims to Monitor 1 Million Foreign
Students in
19. William J.
Broad, "Government Reviving Ties to Scientists," New
York Times on the web,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A16FB3A5F0C738EDDA80994D9404482 21. Ron
Southwick, "John Marburger, One of the President's Men," Chronicle
of Higher
Education
on-line,
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i22/22a02201.htm
II. Government as
Employer
1. National Science
and Technology Council, Ensuring a Strong
http://www.ostp.gov/html/workforcerpt.pdf 2. NASA White Paper, "Enhancing NASA/University Cooperation" [page 119] 3. Ron Southwick, "NASA
Outlines Plans for Closer Collaboration with Colleges on Research
Projects," Chronicle of Higher Education on-line,
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i11/11a02902.htm 4. Ron Southwick, "NASA would get
Slight Increase in 2003 Budget, but Bush Proposes Major Changes for
Agency," Chronicle of Higher Education on-line,
http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/02/2002020506n.htm 5. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Inspector General, Office of Audit Services, "Audit Report: Recruitment and Retention of Scientific and Technical Personnel," July 2001 [page 124] http://www.ig.doe.gov/pdf/ig-0512.pdf 6. Linda R. Cohen and Roger G. Noll, "The future of the national laboratories," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 93, 12678-12685, November 1996, Colloquium Paper [page 135] http://www.ciaonet.org/book/ras01/ras01eb.html 7. Adam B. Jaffe and Manuel Tajtenberg, "Flows of knowledge from universities and federal laboratories: Modeling the flow of patent citations over time and across institutional and geographic boundaries," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 93, 12671-12677, November 1996, Colloquium Paper [page 143] http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/93/23/12671 8. NSF/SRS Executive Summary, Federal Scientists and Engineers: 1989-1993 [page 150] http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/s1493/pdf/nsf95336.pdf 9. Richard M. Jones, "Defense Science
Board Task Force Wants 30% Increase in University S&T," American
Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News, no. 140, 30 November 2000 [page
152]
http://www.aip.org/enews/fyi/2000/fyi00.140.htm 10. Defense Science Board history fact sheet, "The Defense Science Board was established in 1956 in response..." [page 154] http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/history.htm 11. Gail Repsher
Emery, "Help wanted: Defense labs face recruitment challenges,"
Washington Technology on-line,
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/16_23/federal/17901-1.html
III. Government support of
industry
1. J.C. Tsang, "How industry matters in balancing the federal research portfolio," Technology in Society 24, 2002, 49-61 [page 158] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0160-791X(01)00042-2 2. Jonathan Tucker,
"It's Not Just the Money: The Role of ATP Proposal Evaluation
and
Awards in
Leveraging Private Support by Providing Independent Validation of
Projects" in Branscomb, Lewis, Managing Technical Risk: Understanding
Private Sector
Decision Making
on Early Stage Technology-based Projects (U.S. Department
of
Commerce) [page
171]
3. "Spending for
Defense," supplement to the Wall Street Journal,
a.) Anne Marie Squeo, "Ready for
b.) "On the March," chart of defense spending
c.) Greg Jaffe, "New and Improved?"
d.) Anne Marie Squeo, "The Ripple Effect"
4. James D. Adams,
Eric P. Chiang, and Jeffrey L. Jensen, "The Influence of Federal
Laboratory R&D on Industry Research," paper of
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w7612.pdf
IV.
Data Issues
1. Melissa Pollak,
"Counting the S&E Workforce - It's Not That Easy," Issue Brief,
NSF
Division of Science
Resources Studies,
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/issuebrf/ib99344.htm
2. Joan S.
Burrelli, "Growth Continued in 2000 in Graduate Enrollment in Science
and
Engineering Fields,
"SRS- Division of Science Resources Statistics/National
Science
Foundation,
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/databrf/nsf02306/db02306.htm 3. Susan T. Hill, "Declines in U.S. Doctorate Awards in Physics and Engineering," InfoBrief SRS - Division of Science Resources Statistics/National Science Foundation, April 2002 [page 210] http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/infbrief/nsf02316/start.htm 4. Jeffrey Mervis,
"NSF Report Paints a Global Picture," Science, vol. 296,
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/296/5569/829 5. Benoit Godin, "The emergence of S&T indicators: Why did governments supplement statistics with indicators?" Research Policy, 1398, 2002 [page 214] http://www.ost.qc.ca/OSTE/Document/Emergence_ST_Indicators.pdf
V.
Government support of students and postdocs
1. Jeffrey Mervis,
"Can Universities be bribed to train more scientists?," Science,
vol. 294,
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/5551/2466 2. "Graduate
Fellowship Stipends: What is the Appropriate Level of Support?," a
document developed for FY03 budget discussions between NSF and OMB [page
229]
3. H.R. 3130, as
reported by the Subcommittee on Research on
http://www.fas.org/learn/legislation/hr3130.PDF 4. Scott Smallwood,
"Stipends are Key in Competition to Land Top Graduate
Students,"
Chronicle of
Higher Education on-line,
http://chronicle.merit.edu/free/v48/i05/05a02401.htm 5. Charts on Postdoctoral surveys from Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers [page 252] http://www.nap.edu/html/postdoctoral_experience/ 6. Katie
Cottingham, "Insights from Funders: A Discussion of Postdoctoral Support,"
Science Next Wave,
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/05/15/6 7. John Marburger,
"Developing Science Workforce Policy: 2nd National Postdoc Network
Meeting, Keynote Address," Science Next Wave,
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2002/05/16/4 8. Ron Southwick,
"NIH Offers Postdoctoral Scientists a Raise and Prospects for
Better
Treatment,"
Chronicle of Higher Education on-line,
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i33/33a02901.htm 9. "Funding Opportunities" from the National Institutes of Health for Postdocs and Graduate Students [page 262] http://grants.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm 10. Gabriela
Montell, "Postdocs Push for Better Treatment," Chronicle of Higher
Education online,
http://chronicle.merit.edu/jobs/2000/03/2000031003c.htm 11. James J.
Duderstadt, "Preparing Future Faculty for Future Universities," address to
the American Association of Colleges and Universities,
http://milproj.ummu.umich.edu/publications/aacu_text/aacu_text.pdf
VI.
Mathematics, VIGRE, and the NSA
1. Charles.Seife, "Mathematics Funding: NSF Initiative Gives Field-a Chance to Show Relevance,"
Science, vol. 294,
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/5550/2275 2. Keith Devlin, "Mathematics and Homeland Security," MAA Online [The Mathematical Association of
http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_04_02.html 3. Allyn Jackson, "Reports Assess U.S. Standing in Mathematics," Notices of the AMS, vol. 45, no. 7 [page 278] http://www.ams.org/notices/199807/comm-assess.pdf 4. Report of the
Senior Assessment Panel for the International Assessment of the
Mathematical Sciences, March 1998 [page 281] http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9895/start.htm 5. Letter of Phillip A. Griffiths introducing the report of the Panel on International Benchmarking of
Research (1997 - prepublication copy) [page 315] http://www.nap.edu/html/exp_in_bench/pdf/attachment1.pdf 6. The goals of the VIGRE program (Grants for Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences) [page 318] 7. "MAA Science & Technology Policy Report: Higher Education, Employment & Workforce" [page 319] 8. Gerald W. Bracey, "Tinkering with TIMSS," Kappan Professional Journal, 1998 [page 320] http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kbra9809.htm 9. "What is the NSA?" from www.nsa.gov [page 325] http://www.nsa.gov/about_nsa/index.html 10. George Cahlink,
"National Security: Breaking the Code," GovExec.com,
http://www.governmentexecutive.com/features/0901/0901mag.htm |