USOE—the giant gets bigger

“With a huge $138 million jump over last year, the US Office of Education requested $1.3 billion for higher education alone in 1967. This figure will be more than twice the entire $525‐million budget request of the National Science Foundation. Though USOE support spreads over a far broader base than that of NSF, undoubtedly more and more physics departments will feel the benefits of burgeoning USOE programs in these areas: $453 million for undergraduate‐facilities construction, $200 million for graduate‐ and undergraduate‐school construction, $17 million for undergraduate‐instructional equipment, $82 million for National Defense Education Act graduate fellowships. One program USOE is launching this year is called “Strengthening Developing Institutions” (Title III of the 1965 Higher Education Act), for which $5 million has been appropriated for 1966 and $30 million requested for 1967 (see PHYSICS TODAY, January, page 93).