The basic policies are: 



• Universities will be strongly involved in the NASA mission. This involvement will take place primarily 

 through NASA's research and education programs. 



• Academic scientists and engineers will conduct a substantial portion of the basic and applied research in all 

 disciplines of the NASA program and will participate directly, or through advisory groups, in all phases of 

 the basic and applied research activity: conception, planning, programming, execution, analysis, and inter- 

 pretation of the data and publication of results. 



• NASA's education programs, directed toward helping to meet the National Education Goals and ensuring a 

 sufficient talent pool to preserve U.S. leadership in aeronautics, space science, and technology, will direct a 

 substantial portion of resources to universities. These programs will support, through active participation in 

 NASA research, undergraduate and graduate student support and faculty preparation and enhancement. 



• Basic research opportunities using NASA aircraft and spacecraft or instruments connected to such craft will 

 be available on the basis of open competition, peer review, and selection by Headquarters. NASA research 

 facilities will also be available. Cooperation between academic research groups and NASA in-house groups 

 will be encouraged. 



• Continuing research programs will be subject to peer evaluation at least once every 3 years involving 

 reviews by academic and in-house scientists and engineers. 



• NASA's relations with the university community will be conducted in a manner that reflects concern and 

 understanding for the role of universities in education and research, avoids undue imposition of burden- 

 some requirements, and does not stress a university's financial resources. 



Guidelines for implementing these policies include: 



• Sponsored projects should be pertinent to the NASA mission and generally compatible with the interests, 

 activities, and capabilities of universities, normally avoiding short-term, sub-professional, or job-shop types 

 of work which do not directly or significantly contribute to the educative or research process. 



• Academic scientists/engineers will be encouraged to present unsolicited proposals or to respond to an- 

 nouncements of opportunity. Information will be widely disseminated and will require the least burden- 

 some type of response. 



• University students will be encouraged to pursue scientific knowledge and/or pursue NASA related careers 

 through a variety of programs. These programs will generally include summer research experiences, 

 scholarships, traineeships, fellowships, career guidance materials, lectures, workshops, design projects and 

 others. Recruitment for participation in these programs will emphasize underrepresented women, minorities 

 and persons with disabilities. 



• Academic efforts of a continuing nature should be supported by suitable long-term funding arrangements, 

 providing continuity through a variety of ways, as simply as possible. 



• Terminations will be on an exception basis, and will take into account consequences to graduate students 

 working under those grants/contracts. 



• Officials-in-Charge of Headquarters Offices are responsible for contributing to the overall health of the 

 academic establishment required to support the long-range goals of their program. In general, this means 

 assuring that there exists an academic establishment involved in the forefront of basic and applied research, 

 producing scientists and engineers interested in and knowledgeable of the appropriate aerospace disciplines 

 and capable of maintaining the Nation's leadership in science and technology in the decades ahead. 



• The Associate Administrator for Human Resources and Education is responsible for coordinating univer- 

 sity-related |X)licy and activities among NASA program offices, installations, and advisory bodies and, to 

 that end, will be kept appropriately informed. 



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