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Mr. Rogers. Education as well as health? 



Dr. Jacobs. I handle matters involving scientific substance, related 

 "to department policy questions, but I don't deal with education per se. 



Mr, Rogers. Suppose you feel that a certain area of the science field 

 is not being- given proper support in the Department of Education? 



Dr. Jacobs. I certainly have a means of communicating with the 

 Office of Education to make any suggestion I wish to. We in our own 

 group under Dr. Lee, the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific 

 Affairs, are very concerned about health, manpower, and education in 

 the health professions. So in that respect, we are directly concerned 

 with education problems. 



Mr. Rogers. How many graduate fellowships under title IV of the 

 NDEA for teaching careers do you suppose are conducted by the De- 

 partment or supported by the Department? Do you have any idea? 



Dr. Jacobs. In regard to oceanography ? 



Mr. Rogers. No ; all of them. The total amount. 



Dr. Jacobs. I have a colleague here who may be able to speak to that. 

 Dr. Lindquist. 



Mr. Rogers. Check on it and then furnish us something for the 

 record. 



Dr. Lindquist. Under title IV of NDEA, which provides fellowships 

 ior college teaching, there are currently 49 fellowships being sup- 

 ported in marine science and technology out of a total of 15,000. 



Mr. Rogers. 15,000 and only 49 of that number go to the marine 

 sciences ? 



Dr. Lindquist. Yes ; sir. 



Mr. Rogers. This is the figure I want ; thank you. 



I hope you will take it back to the Department that we don't think 

 that is much emphasis on education in the marine sciences field. 



Dr. Lindquist. The fellowships are allocated to the universities by 

 number according to the size and quality of the graduate school of the 

 institution. It is a rather complicated process. Then the graduate 

 deans and select committees at the institutions allocate the fellowships 

 among the approved programs. So we do not control the allocation to 

 approved programs except the recommendation could be made that this 

 is a field that needs more support. The Office of Education does request 

 that two-thirds of the fellowships be awarded to students in the hu- 

 manities, social sciences, and education. 



Mr. Rogers. Do they not make application to you as to what they 

 want to do ? 



Dr. Lindquist. They make an application, sir, for the support of 

 programs in different fields, and some are in oceanography. The grad- 

 uate deans or the people who administer the programs at the uni- 

 versities can allocate these fellowships, the number allotted to them, 

 in the fields they see fit among the approved programs. 



Mr. Rogers. As I understand, do they not give you some idea how 

 the distribution will be made ? 



Dr. Lindquist. No, sir ; that is not the way it is done at the present 

 time. When the program was first started, the institutions made a spe- 

 cific application, say, in the field of oceanography, and they asked for a 

 specified number of fellowships. Now I am not sure how many the 

 University of Miami, for example, gets, but say they get 60 fellow- 



