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NIH funding trends: http://www.faseb.org/Policy-and-Government-Affairs/Data-Compilations/NIH-Research-Funding-Trends.aspx http://www.faseb.org/Policy-and-Govern

NIH funding trends: http://www.faseb.org/Policy-and-Government-Affairs/Data-Compilations/NIH-Research-Funding-Trends.aspx http://www.faseb.org/Policy-and-Government-Affairs/Data-Comp... SUNY budget: http://chronicle.com/article/NY-Budget-Takes-Another-Bite/126968/ http://chronicle.com/article/NY-Budget-Takes-Another-Bite/12... "Didn't get expected increase" is equivalent to a budget cut, because the time horizon at a university is long - you hire a tenure-track professor in a suitable field, give the person startup money and hope he will stay and get grants in. It takes several years to recover this kind of investment. You simply cannot have politicians dick every year with the operating budget, it makes planning impossible. That is in fact what has put space research in the US far behind. That sort of project takes decades from proposal to wrapup.

protomyth 14y ago
NIH is one research funding source and SUNY is one school system. I am wondering about the overall trend. How is it dicking with the budget when you get the same amount as last year? Not a lot of people can say that these days.
- cinquemb 14y ago
  The Atlantic did a piece on decrease in government funding trends back in january: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-38-states-that-have-slashed-higher-education-spending/267427/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-38-s... And Think Progress shows some stats on another indicator of decrease in government funding trends (tuition hikes): http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013/03/19/1741231/states-higher-education-cuts/ http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013/03/19/1741231/states... The Kansas City Fed also did a report on a periphery indicator of decrease in government funding trends (student loan defaults) and more: http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/reswkpap/pdf/rwp%2012-05.pdf http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/reswkpap/pdf/rwp%2012-... And when you consider that universities have been raising their tuition prices by 5%+ per year for decades, if they get the same check as they received last year means that they will have less money to spend.

protomyth 14y ago

NIH is one research funding source and SUNY is one school system. I am wondering about the overall trend. How is it dicking with the budget when you get the same amount as last year? Not a lot of people can say that these days.

cinquemb 14y ago
The Atlantic did a piece on decrease in government funding trends back in january: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-38-states-that-have-slashed-higher-education-spending/267427/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-38-s... And Think Progress shows some stats on another indicator of decrease in government funding trends (tuition hikes): http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013/03/19/1741231/states-higher-education-cuts/ http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013/03/19/1741231/states... The Kansas City Fed also did a report on a periphery indicator of decrease in government funding trends (student loan defaults) and more: http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/reswkpap/pdf/rwp%2012-05.pdf http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/reswkpap/pdf/rwp%2012-... And when you consider that universities have been raising their tuition prices by 5%+ per year for decades, if they get the same check as they received last year means that they will have less money to spend.