July 25, 2003

NSF Head Doesn't Want to Oversee Technology Program for Minority Colleges

By DAN CARNEVALE

The director of the National Science Foundation said this month that she does not support a bill that would make the agency the overseer of a $250-million effort for minority-serving colleges to improve their computer systems, because the bill would divert money from the agency's other information-technology projects.

Rita R. Colwell, director of the science foundation, asked the House of Representatives Science Committee's Research Subcommittee to amend the bill so that another

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