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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 25, 1991
Dear Bill:
As you know, the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and
Technology (FCCSET) was established by Congressional action in 1976. The fact that
you and other agency heads have agreed to become members of FCCSET has
completely revitalized the Council and made it possible for it to function for the first
time as originally intended.
As I mentioned to you at the NES presentation, Maryanne Bach, who has served as
the Assistant Director of OSTP with responsibility for FCCSET--and who has done an
outstanding job under difficult circumstances--is returning to the Department of the
Interior to take up the Directorship of its Policy Office.
As you will recall, the FCCSET legislation mandates that the member agencies
provide the staff for FCCSET completely outside of the OSTP budget. Interior
provided Ms. Bach and NSF, NOAA and NASA are currently providing other support
staff.
In considering a replacement for Ms. Bach, my senior associates and I quickly
concluded that by far the best qualified person was Dr. Vickie Sutton who, during
this past year, has been working with us at OSTP as a liaison with EPA. As you
know, I think that she has done an excellent job in that capacity.
I am now, formally, requesting that you officially designate her as being detailed to
FCCSET from EPA, so that she can take on major leadership responsibilities for the
FCCSET operation. This position carries the title of Assistant Director of OSTP with
responsibility for FCCSET and will report directly to me.
Since the full FCCSET and OMB have approved five parallel crosscutting initiatives
for inclusion in the President's FY 1993 budget (global change, mathematics and
science education, high performance computing and communication, materials science
and engineering and biotechnology), this is a critical period for FCCSET and the five
committees charged with developing these crosscuts. Last year's activities on the first
three of these were, in my view, very successful and I am optimistic that we can do
even better this year in terms of interagency cooperation and program integration.
As Assistant Director of OSTP responsible for FCCSET, Dr. Sutton will be one of
eight Assistant Directors having responsibilities for life science, physical sciences and
engineering, social sciences, national security science and technology, industrial
technology, environmental sciences, and PCAST. All seven of these others hold SES 3
or SES 4 appointments and I would request that EPA appoint Dr. Sutton to such a
position consistent with her new responsibilities.
Both personally, and on behalf of both OSTP and FCCSET, let me thank you for
your continuing help and cooperation.
With all best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Ana
D. Allan Bromley
Chairman, FCCSET
The Honorable William K. Reilly
Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 25, 1991
Dear Bill:
As you know, the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and
Technology (FCCSET) was established by Congressional action in 1976. The fact that
you and other agency heads have agreed to become members of FCCSET has
completely revitalized the Council and made it possible for it to function for the first
time as originally intended.
As I mentioned to you at the NES presentation, Maryanne Bach, who has served as
the Assistant Director of OSTP with responsibility for FCCSET--and who has done an
outstanding job under difficult circumstances--is returning to the Department of the
Interior to take up the Directorship of its Policy Office.
As you will recall, the FCCSET legislation mandates that the member agencies
provide the staff for FCCSET completely outside of the OSTP budget. Interior
provided Ms. Bach and NSF, NOAA and NASA are currently providing other support
staff.
In considering a replacement for Ms. Bach, my senior associates and I quickly
concluded that by far the best qualified person was Dr. Vickie Sutton who, during
this past year, has been working with us at OSTP as a liaison with EPA. As you
know, I think that she has done an excellent job in that capacity.
I am now, formally, requesting that you officially designate her as being detailed to
FCCSET from EPA, so that she can take on major leadership responsibilities for the
FCCSET operation. This position carries the title of Assistant Director of OSTP with
responsibility for FCCSET and will report directly to me.
Since the full FCCSET and OMB have approved five parallel crosscutting initiatives
for inclusion in the President's FY 1993 budget (global change, mathematics and
science education, high performance computing and communication, materials science
and engineering and biotechnology), this is a critical period for FCCSET and the five
committees charged with developing these crosscuts. Last year's activities on the first
three of these were, in my view, very successful and I am optimistic that we can do
even better this year in terms of interagency cooperation and program integration.
As Assistant Director of OSTP responsible for FCCSET, Dr. Sutton will be one of
eight Assistant Directors having responsibilities for life science, physical sciences and
engineering, social sciences, national security science and technology, industrial
technology, environmental sciences, and PCAST. All seven of these others hold SES 3
or SES 4 appointments and I would request that EPA appoint Dr. Sutton to such a
position consistent with her new responsibilities.
Both personally, and on behalf of both OSTP and FCCSET, let me thank you for
your continuing help and cooperation.
With all best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Ana
D. Allan Bromley
Chairman, FCCSET
The Honorable William K. Reilly
Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 26, 1991
Dear Harold:
Many thanks for your letter of March 13 relating to the FCCSET report on
education.
The point you raise in your third paragraph is, in my view, an extremely important
one and one that has been brought up to me in rather dramatic fashion by the
Presidential Award Secondary School teachers whom we brought to Washington as
guests of the President last fall. They maintained on many occasions that despite
their best efforts, a generation of teaching assistants who were unable to speak
English and who gave the impression of not really caring, were turning off the best
output of the high schools in science and mathematics and driving them into other
fields.
This is clearly a question that we need to inject into the deliberations of this
FCCSET Committee as it moves on to its phase two activities and to the revised,
updated, and expanded study that it will produce to accompany next year's budget.
They have already decided that one of the areas of major importance in their next
year's activity will be an examination of our production and treatment of technicians.
We missed you at the March PCAST meeting and look forward to seeing you at the
one in April.
With warmest best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Ann
D. Allan Bromley
Assistant to the President
for
Science and Technology
Professor Harold T. Shapiro
President
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0015
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0015
President's Room
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OFFICE or inc
Dr. D. Allan Bromley, Director
DIRECTOR
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Old Executive Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20506
Dear Allan:
I was sorry to have to miss the March PCAST meeting, but I
certainly look forward to our scheduled meeting in April. The
purpose of this note is to provide, as requested, some brief
observations on the FCCSET Committee report on education and
human resources.
It is an extremely helpful report and reflects an enormous
amount of very productive activity by the FCCSET Committee. The
work done to date will provide many dividends for education in
the coming years. It was really quite impressive to see such a
coherent and understandable description of the current federal
funding situation for education as well as proposals for the
future. The general thrust of the proposals are supported by
convincing rationales and by admirably pragmatic approaches. In
short, it is an extraordinarily ambitious and promising
undertaking. My greatest overall concern is that we might not be
able to meet the implied time schedule at existing levels of
funding.
There is, however, one general point that I believe is
under-appreciated by the Committee and may be worth emphasizing.
It is understandable that the report focuses on the pre-college
level. That is where we have the greatest problem. The problems
at the K-12 level, however, will take many years to resolve and
require very large resource commitments by various levels of the
public and private sector. There is another avenue open to us
that would solve some of our problems a lot quicker and with
fewer resources; namely, decreasing the rate of attrition from
science programs by students who are already undergraduates.
Thus, although there are strong arguments that the greatest need
for improvement in science and mathematics education lies at the
pre-college level, it is less clear to me that a cost/benefit
analysis would argue for the same short-term funding priorities.
To put the matter in a different way, one might get more leverage
by making some investments focused on undergraduate education
with the objective of decreasing attrition from science and
engineering programs. My understanding of the FCCSET report
indicates that undergraduate education ranks just behind pre-
college programs.
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Over the long haul, there is no question that activities at
the pre-college level are the most critical. The issue, if any,
is whether we might get some short-term leverage by devoting some
funds to attacking the problem of undergraduate attrition in
science and engineering.
Best regards.
Sincerely,
Hell
Harold T. Shapiro
HTS/ms
THE WHITE HOUSE
Sept 15, 1991
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A. Funding by Agency
Academic Research Funding by Six Civilian Federal Agencies:
FY 1980-FY 1989 (selected years)
FY 1989 dollars in billions
$10
$10
8
EPA
8
$7.3b
NASA
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1980
0
1983
1986
1989
Year
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A. Amount
Academic Research Funding by Purpose for Six
Civilian Federal Agencies: FY 1980 - FY 1989
(selected years)
FY 1989 dollars in billions
5
5
Thematic
Disciplinary
4
4
Support
Human
Resources
3
3
Instrumentation
2
2
1
1
0
0
1980
1983
1986
1989
Year
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A. Amount
Academic Research Funcing by Mode of Support for
Six Civilian Federal Agencies: FY 1980 - FY 1989
(selected years)
FY 1989 dollars in billions
5
5
Investigator
Individual
4
4
Research
Teams
Research
3
3
Centers
Major
Facilities
2
2
1
1
1.11
,
0
0
1980
1983
1986
1989
Year