December 9, 2005

College Officials Criticize NIH Proposals to Control Spending on Training

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

College officials panned proposals last week by the National Institutes of Health to control its contributions toward tuition and health-insurance costs for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in biomedical science. The proposals would shift more of those costs to colleges or trim the number of trainees.

Speaking at a meeting here, several college officials said the proposed constraints would tend to penalize private institutions, where tuition is higher on average than at

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