EXHIBIT 8 Federal support of graduate study-Number of participants in Federal fellowship, traineeship, and training grant programs, fiscal years 1963 and 1964 [Based on agency estimates and requests in the Budget, 1964, as forwarded to Congress] Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education.. (4) Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Public Health Training grants (awards to individuals through educational institutions): 1. Long term... The National Education Improvement Act of 1963 would provide an additional 8,500 fellowships. 2 Distribution of fellowships by level estimated on basis of distribution pattern in 1961. NIH fellowships include research career investigator grants, primarily for support of independent research of recipients. Estimates based on 1961 data. Later data is not available to Office of Education at this time. The National Education Improvement Act of 1963 would provide 2,000 summer fellowships. Systematic data on the number of graduate students employed as research assistants from Federal research grant and contract funds are not available. For fiscal year 1961, however, there were an estimated 15,000 such students. See "Meeting Manpower Needs in Science and Technology" (Rept. No. 1: Graduate training in engineering, mathematics, and physical sciences), a report of the President's Science Advisory Committee, December 1962. Not available. National Defense Education Act title IV graduate fellowship program statistics—Con. (See below.) Institutions at which all of the title IV programs have terminated. Programs in which all title IV fellows have either completed their fellowship tenure or resigned, leaving no active fellows in the program. Estimates based on requests for optimum number of fellows. Expenditures as of June 30, 1961, of fiscal year 1959 funds. • Expenditures as of June 30, 1962, of fiscal year 1960 funds. 'Expenditures as of Dec. 31, 1962, fiscal year 1961-62 funds. Institutions participating in the title IV program by type and control, academic year 1963-64 [Figures without parentheses indicate the number of institutions that will be participating in the program in 1963-64. The figures in parentheses indicate the number of schools that will have new fellows in 1963 beginning study in new or continuing title IV programs] NOTE.-Figures for land-grant schools and Association of Graduate Schools appear high because each camous of the University of California is counted separately. In addition, the University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Teachers College of Columbia University, and the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy are counted separately from their parent schools, the University of Missouri, Columbia University, and Tufts University, respectively. The several colleges of the city University of New York are counted as a single institution, however. Title IV program requests by academic area and year of award 1 Title IV fellowships requested 1 by academic area and year of award Num- Per- Num- Per- Num- Per- Num- Per- Num- Per- Num- Per- 1 Where maximum and minimum figures were given, maximums were used. Requests for title IV programs by type and control of institution1 and academic year Num- Per- Num- Per- Num- Per- Num- Per- Num- Perber cent ber cent ber cent ber cent ber cent 1 In this table, the following institutions, usually counted as separate schools, are considered as single institutions for the purpose of determining rank and calculating totals: All campuses of the University of California, Columbia University and Teachers College, Columbia University, University of Missouri, and University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. The 10 schools participating in title IV that awarded the largest number of Ph. D.'s in academic year 1959-60. The 20 schools participating in title IV that awarded the largest number of Ph. D.'s in academic year 1959-60. |