...five years the Endowment will continue to address these problems. Following the Congress' directive to "develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of progress and scholarship in the humanities," we will use the prestige of the Endowment to urge higher...

...national policy decisions epitomized by the creation of the National Science Foundation with its mission "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...promotion of basic research and education in the sciences; and to initiate and support basic scientific research in the mathematical, physical, medical, biological,...

...headmaster will not disappoint you. Senator PELL. Now the enabling legislation which we did draft says; "To develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of progress and scholarship in the humanities. ' Now, what does that mandate mean to you? Mr. CURRAN....

...purposes for NSF's establishment had been to develop and encourage pursuit of an appropriate and effective national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences. From time to time, NSF would recommend to the President Federal policies that would strengthen the...

...Foundation in 1950, that function was lodged in the new agency. The Foundation was "authorized and directed to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...promotion of basic research and education in the sciences" and "to evaluate scientific research programs undertaken by agencies of the Federal government, and...

...to support basic research in science, and in the area of policy forming it directed the Foundation to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...promotion of basic research and education in the sciences. The National Science Foundation took the position that it could be an effective policy-forming agency...

...with the Arts Endowment's guidelines, they are broad in concept and include authorization to — (1) develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of progress and scholarship in the humanities; (2) initiate and support research and programs to strengthen...

...defined broadly in terms of the Foundation's statutory responsibilities: "to develop and encourage pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences . . . and to appraise the impact of research upon industrial development and upon the general welfare."...

...provided the blueprint for creation of the National Science Foundation. NSF was established in 1950 to "develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...of basic research and education in the sciences." Following the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite, this mission was expanded to provide greater...

...to exercise its policy-making authority. Listed first among NSF's functions in the act of 1950 was "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...of basic research and education in the sciences." A related function was "to evaluate scientific research programs undertaken by agencies of the Federal...