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6 The Shifting Base of Financial Support for Land Grant College Research and Extension
6 The Shifting Base of Financial Support for Land Grant College Research and Extension
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HI The U.S. public has a $3 billion stake in the combined research and extension activities of the land grant colleges of agriculture and their forestry and veterinary medicine counterparts.
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However, lack of complete data on private sector activities in research and extension make itdifficulttosaywith certaintywhich activity has become less public and more private. ~ Federal dollars for research conducted at land grant colleges of agriculture flow to the colleges through four funding mechanisms: 1.
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Other federal funds are contributed by non-CSRS federal agencies. Figures are expenditures of funds reported by the institutions themselves.
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Three percent of funds appropriated under the Hatch Act is set aside for federal administration, which includes disbursement of funds and a continuous review and evaluation of the research programs of the state agricultural experiment stations supported wholly or in part by Hatch Act funds. USDA's Cooperative State Research Service (now merged with the Extension Service to form the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service or CREES)
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the main competitive grants program administered by USDA is accessible to scientists at all public and private universities. In fact, about 27 percent of NRI grant applications have not come from land grant universities (National Research Council, 1994~.
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At some colleges research funding appears to benefit from the col lege's political access and influence. In 1992 special research grants accounted for 25 percent of SAKS research funding at the University of Vermont, 13 percent atthe University of Hawaii, 1 1 percent at Michigan and Iowa State universities, and 10 percent at Mississippi State, North Dakota, and New Mexico.
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of Nevada Tota I $6,573 6,485 3,905 3,543 3,061 2,914 2,887 2,789 2,774 2,587 2,527 2,511 2,197 2,140 2,036 1,877 1,835 1,814 1,768 1,699 1,530 1,411 1,383 1,324 1,243 1 ,000 862 837 799 770 733 708 673 659 597 568 485 468 378 378 358 332 279 214 166 138 138 114 101 82 45 29 5 5 5 76,742 1 1 1 1 3 10 13 6 6 9 7 7 7 10 6 2 25 4 3 4 10 3 1 2 6 2 3 4 3 6 1 3 10 15 5 1 <1 <1 <1 <1 5 SOURCE: Data are from USDA Current Research Information System (CRIS)
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. l SS UES FOR ~ Overthe decades, state support relative to federal support of the land grant system DISCUSSION has increased.
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