January 6, 2006

Federal Spending: Academe Faces First Real Cuts in 2 Decades

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Federal financing for academic research and stu- dent aid in 2006 may seem like a reprise of 1982, al- though college scientists and administrators will hardly be humming the hit song from that year, "Up Where We Belong."

Federal funds for nonmilitary research will fall for the first time since the 1982 fiscal year, when President Ronald Reagan pressed for spending cuts. Several student-aid programs will also get their largest reductions since then, although the biggest such fund, the

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