Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
So It Goes – Travails of Science in Latest Congress
The latest re-authorization of the America COMPETES bill that dramatically reduces funding for social science (and geoscience) may very well pass Congress. Will the president be willing to veto an important bill that contains these unwelcome provisions?
COSSA Statement on the House America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806)
Ed. – The Consortium of Social Science Associations released the following statement in response to the draft House Resolution 1806, the America […]
Preserving SBE Funding — A No-Brainer?
Social and behavioral science doesn’t get near the respect on Capitol Hill that sciences looking at the physical brain receive. A recent hearing suggests that spotlight on neuroscience might yet reflect positively on its unloved cousin.
Two Mentors and a Senate Legacy
Howard Silver looks back over the career of the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress and how her role as appropriator influenced policy decisions on social science wants and needs.
A Modest Proposal: Cap the Right to Ask for Grants
They take forever to write and the rejection rate is high. To save all that wasted effort, what if we capped the number of grants that an individual, or perhaps an institution, could submit …?
Obama’s Budget Proposal Would Raise NSF Budget 5 Percent
Although it may be aspirational than actual, the president’s proposals for U.S. government spending on social science and statistical agencies are well up from this year’s appropriations.
Can Federal Funding for the Social Sciences Survive in 2015?
The change in political balance in the U.S. Congress almost certainly will impact the fortunes of government-funded social and behavioral science next year. It’s time, argues Howard Silver, for universities and private industry to join the effort to preserve and protect these disciplines.
Seeking Champions for Social Sciences
Past attempts by American policymakers to degrade the role of social science in the nation’s research and educational infrastructure highlight the necessity of having champions ready to joust in the tourneys on Capitol Hill.
