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11 Federal Support of Education
11 Federal Support of Education
Pages 179-186
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As observed in the introductory paragraphs of Part III, our report does not concern itself directly with the extensive activities in support of curriculum revision and continuing teacher training for the elementary and secondary school levels. GRADUATE EDUCATION Where graduate students are concerned, federal support of research merges directly into support of education.
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Apart from research assistantships, federal support of graduate students assumes two principal forms: fellowships and traineeships. With the exception of fellowships awarded under the National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
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In accordance with recommendations of our Panel on Undergraduate Education, we also propose two special-purpose programs for support of graduate students in the mathematical sciences. Their aim is to broaden and improve opportunities for graduate study by women and by graduates of weaker or less well-known colleges.
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universities under postdoctoral fellowships and research instructorships. About one third of these were holding awards under the National Science Foundation's regular and senior postdoctoral fellowship programs.
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For this situation we would like to recommend to federal funding agencies two new programs of teaching fellowships for the immediate postdoctoral years. The first proposal, coming from our Panel on Undergraduate Education, calls for approximately 50 two-year teaching fellowship awards for young PhD's who would carry out research activities at a major mathematical center while teaching a course or two at a nearby smaller college.
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TABLE 1 8 National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellowships in the Mathematical Sciences FISCAL YEAR POSTDOCTORAL PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FELLOWSHIPS 962 18 49 963 19 57 964 23 59 965 16 60 1966 16 73 The Science Faculty Fellowship Program offers an excellent way to upgrade and update college and university faculty in the mathematical sciences. In view of the continuing and seriously growing need for such upgrading and updating, this NSF program merits very considerable expansion.
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The published curriculum studies and recommendations of CUPM have formed valuable guidelines for college curriculum development in the mathematical sciences; these have, in fact, been used extensively by our Panel on Undergraduate Education in writing its report. We feel that continued support of CUPM, as well as of the college visiting lecturer program and these other NsF-funded activities, is justified,
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:eve! and Forms of Support and we heartily endorse the resolution of the Mathematical Association of America to this effects In concluding this section we invite attention to the reports of our Panel on Undergraduate Eduction, and particularly Chapters ~ and 6 of that report, in which the special problems and needs of the undergraduate teacher of the mathematical sciences are discussed in detail.
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