Over the decades, the growth of block funding for research – originally intended to provide for the 'well-found laboratory' and to tide researchers over between grants - has failed to keep pace with the growth of competitively won research grant funding.
These budgetary problems increase the likelihood that the Pell Grant program will fail to keep pace with increases in college costs under either candidate.
Patrick Bresette, of an Austin-based think-tank called the Centre for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP), says that the block grant is already failing to keep pace with the increase in welfare demands and will fall into deficit if the rolls rise further.
Grants will continue to fail to keep pace with increases in college costs, causing a severe decline in college affordability.
Over the last 30 years, that promise, once universal, has eroded, Dr. Fitzgerald said, as costs rose while government grants and private scholarships failed to keep pace.
"Universities are severely threatened when funding for grants plateaus, or does not grow sufficiently to keep pace with the expansion" of grant-funded facilities and soft-money personnel, writes economist Paula Stephan in her astute and important book, How Economics Shapes Science.
His keeping just needs to keep pace.
They find their fiscal stability "severely threatened when funding from grants plateaus, or does not grow sufficiently to keep pace with the expansion.
Because of all this and because NIH makes 5-year commitments when making grants and so has only a fraction of its budget available to make new grants the fiscal stability of many labs and institutions is "severely threatened when funding from grants plateaus, or does not grow sufficiently to keep pace with the expansion.
The proposal would increase grants to the neediest students and allow those grants to rise slightly above the inflation rate, an effort to keep pace with tuition increases.
