...Education. NSF Mandate The National Science Foundation functions under a mandate from Congress "... to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...of basic research and education In the sciences." The Foundation Is "... to Initiate and support . . . programs to strengthen scientific research portentlal...

...has been clearly emphasized this morning is that NSF has a mandate from Congress which reads "* * * to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...of basic research and education in the sciences." The Foundation is "* * * to initiate and support * * * programs to strengthen scientific research potential...

...NSF's charter stated in part that the Foundation would be responsible for developing and encouraging "the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion...of basic research and education in the sciences." Over the years, the executive branch has tried a variety of formal and ad hoc arrangements for planning,...

...Foundation. The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, created in 1965, among other purposes was "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of progress and scholarship in the humanities." For the past fifteen years the NEH has added its support...

...called "little science" — and graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. However, under its authority "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of * * * education in the sciences," NSF also supported experimental summer institutes for high school...

...the Humanities suggests an even greater need for Federal support of the humanities. NEH is authorized to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of progress and scholarship in the humanities. Again, it is in the rigorous pursuit of developing this...

...significant merit. In title XX, section 956(c), the Endowment for the Humanities was authorized to, one: Develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of progress and scholarship in the humanities, foster the interchange of information in the humanities,...

...creation of £ 8> the National Science Foundation "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a §3 w "o national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences; ^ o> ^ [and] to initiate and support basic scientific research in the mathematical, physical, medical,...

...framework for subsidizing basic research, the National Science Foundation Act directed the foundation "to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national...of basic research and education in the sciences." The foundation was given full "authority, within the limits of available 2. For the genesis of the...

...job was the statement in the legislation creating the National Endowment that says the Chairman is to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of progress and scholarship in the humanities. That is a heady charge. It is one that we have taken very...