coe-staff: Although some cuts will be taken education and other research funding remains in place

[Randy Kamphaus]

​Dear Faculty and Staff,


Please see the notes below from; our own Betsy Boyd, the Penn Hill group, which staffs our LEARN coalition member COE's, and Lewis-Burke, which staffs some our UO liaison activities with our congressional delegation and federal agencies.


Many of our faculty, Leslie Leve, and others have worked hard to inform our Oregon congressional delegation about the importance of the education, health, and related research we conduct here, and its economic and social impact on Oregon and the nation.  I am grateful for their efforts.  This work, however, is ongoing, so we will be calling on you again as we continuously improve our efforts to inform our citizens of the importance of this work.  I, for example, will be visiting some members of our congressional delegation in early June as part of AACTE activities, which will provide me with another valuable opportunity to express our gratitude for their advocacy on behalf of our research, training, and development efforts, and the well-being of our children, youth, and families.


Regards,


Randy

Key details include:


·         NIH is above the FY16 level by $2 billion or 6.2% to $34.6 billion, delivering on the CURES promise. ($352 million is set aside for CURES programs including $310 million for the National Cancer Institute, $52 million for the NIH Innovation Fund, $40 million for precision medicine, $10 million for the BRAIN initiative, and $2 million for regenerative medicine);

·         NSF is near flat along with US Dept of Energy Office of Science. Research agencies with increases above 2% include DOD science and technology research, ARPA-E (US Department of Energy), the USDA Agricultural Research Service (the underlying source of funding for the TallWood Design Institute’s federal support), and NIFA/AFRI (Ag’s competitive research grant programs).

·         ShakeAlert (or earthquake early warning), funded at $10.2 million (the Senate mark), up from $8.2 million in FY16. Full funding is $16.1 million/year.

·         Institute of Education Sciences took a $7.5 million cut from FY16. This funding level should allow for new awards. The National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) stayed level funded at $54 million. Both funding levels are much improved from the House marks that would have greatly cut both programs. But still this is now the third or fourth year of flat funding for NCSER. UO and the Oregon delegation are active advocates for education research given the importance of the research budget to our sponsored research numbers and the breadth of the coalition relative to other programs (like NIH). Many thanks to Randy Kamphaus for his energy.

·         NEH and NEA – both NEH and NEA have $2 million increases to their FY17 budget.

Betsy Boyd, Associate VP, Federal Affairs
University of Oregon
Mobile 541-513-1746
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Good morning LEARN Coalition Members. You may be seeing press reports that Congressional leaders have reached a deal on FY 2017 spending. This bill is expected to be voted upon this week.  In terms of LEARN funding priorities:


•         IES:  The R, D and D line took a slight haircut compared to FY 2016, but is much improved over the House 2017 bill from last year.  The final 2017 appropriation for R, D and D will be 187.5 million, which is a $7.5 million reduction compared to FY 2016.  The good news here is this allows for new awards to be made from IES with FY 2017 funding.


•         NCSER:  Flat funded at $54 million


•         NIH overall got a $2 billion increase.  NICHD got $40.5 million in new funding while NIMH will receive $53.5 million above the FY 2016 level.


•         NSF got a small increase overall.
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Alex Nock
Penn Hill Group
www.pennhillgroup.com<http://www.pennhillgroup.com/>
201 618-3900​

Hi all,

Just a quick note before we send our comprehensive write-up later today.

IES would receive $605.3 million, a reduction of about $12.7 million below the current level. Specifically, this proposed reduction would be predominately within Research, Development, and Dissemination, Statistics, and Statewide Data Systems. The National Center for Special Education Research would be flat-funded.

Kaetlyn Cordingley
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC
440 1st Street NW Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001
202-289-7475
Kaetlyn at lewis-burke.com<mailto:Kaetlyn at lewis-burke.com>
www.lewis-burke.com<http://www.lewis-burke.com/>



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