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Alternative Statement on Recommendation 3: Henry Riecken
Pages 91-94

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... At the second meeting of the committee, an NTH official told us that the agency had no control over the total number of students supported on research grants since they are essentially employees hired by the universities and principal investigators. Absent effective control on the number of students supported on federal research grants, the recommended expansion of training grants would increase the availability of federal support for graduate education and likely lead to an increase in graduate enrollments-precisely what the committee wishes to halt.
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From page 92...
... Had the study called for a comparison of alternative mechanisms for predoctoral support, a much more detailed analysis would have been required, including an examination of the cost implications for different institutions and federal sponsors. (NIH training grants do not pay full indirect costs, while research grants do; and training grants also limit trainees' tuition reimbursement to the university.)
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... Without considerably more evidence on the relative merits of alternative mechanisms for supporting graduate students, a recommendation to increase training grants and substitute these positions for research assistantships is unwarranted-and detracts from what ~ consider to be an otherwise scholarly and objective analysis.
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