Pan-Organizational Summit on the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce Meeting Summary (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Position Paper on the U.S. Science & Engineering Workforce
Position Paper on the U.S. Science & Engineering Workforce
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INTRODUCTION ASTRA is a newly established policy research collaboration comprising 48 of America's leading science and technology companies, associations, professional societies, universities, and research institutions. ASTRA's underlying companies and institutions in turn represent hundreds of thousands of science and technology professionals across dozens of scientific disciplines through their workplaces, professional organizations, and academic institutions.
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ASTRA believes the recent decline is due to several factors, including: the Cold War "build down," which left a gap in defense science budgets, the overall need to redress chronic budget deficits by a succession of administrations and Congresses, and a strongly supported policy decision to increase research funding for the life sciences in the mid-199Os. Underfunding creates imbalance in the scientific research portfolio, disrupts academic recruiting and grant making, stymies faculty development, and thwarts infrastructure investment.
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bachelor's degrees in non-Life Sciences and Engineering continue long-term decline 1975-1998. Source: National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators 2002 and ASTRA.
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academic institutions. Source: National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators 2002.
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Analysis of these data also seems to demonstrate that individual choice of science discipline is affected less by actual labor market demand and more by the availability of grants and stipends for particular scientific disciplines, such as in the life sciences. Finding 5: "Basic" research funding is a government responsibility, and the federal science research budget needs to be morefocused on basic scientific research.
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analyze current industry trends in basic research investment and risk reduction over the technology life cycle and suggest possible policy options available: - -A Am: ~ pit 4% ~ ~ r ~- ^~ ~anl<:i Dm~pme~: 23% an,,, ....~.
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member firms' annual planned investments in directed basic research. Source: IRI as reported by Gregory Tassey, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
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Source: Gregory Tassey, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
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CONCLUSIONS ASTRA appreciates the opportunity to review SHE funding in light of the prolonged decline in federal investment in the physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering. We firmly believe that the most critical step at this point in time is to change the trend, fund all science agencies adequately, and develop a long-range vision of the outcomes we as a nation need from our strong commitment to public science.
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