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ships. T'he dean there then can allocate these fellowships among the 

 various approved departments as he sees fit. 



Mr. EoGERS. Florida Atlantic University now has a Department of 

 Oceanography or Marine Science. How many fellowships do you sup- 

 pose you have allocated them ? 



Dr. LiNDQuiST. I am not sure that they have been approved for doc- 

 toral level work yet. I do not know that that university at present 

 participates. 



Mr. Rogers. Is this only doctoral work ? 



Dr. LiNDQuiST. Yes, sir; under title IV NDEA fellowships. The 

 program was set up primarily for preparing candidates for college 

 teaching. 



Mr. Rogers. How about Florida State University ? 



Dr. LiNDQuiST. I think Florida State has a program in oceanog- 

 raphy. I do not have the booklet with me at the present time to know 

 whether Florida State has an approved program. 



Dr. Jacobs. Mr. Chairman, I have the figure on Florida State Uni- 

 versit3\ There was one fellowship in marine sciences in the academic 

 year 1967-68. 



Mr. Rogers. What about Florida Atlantic ? 



Dr. Jacobs. Florida Atlantic is not on this list. I am familiar with 

 Florida Atlantic because of a friend who teaches there. As I under- 

 stand from communicating with him, the school is just getting going 

 in some of these projects, and I imagine that later on they will be 

 eligible for them, whereas they have not yet got themselves focused 

 on all that they want to do. 



Mr. Rogers. I sliould think some empliasis here, even though you do 

 not pick out schools where they are doing it, would have a tendency 

 to build up our competency in this area natiouAvide. Is this not true? 



Dr. Jacobs. This is the aim of our contribution. As j^ou know, we do 

 not make the sole contribution here. For instance, NSF has the re- 

 sponsibility for the sea grant colleges. 



I might mention the University of Miami is also well supported 

 under title IV of NDEA. It has been supported with fellowships ever 

 since 1960. They have six new fellowships in marine sciences this year 

 plus five fellowships now in their second year. So, there is a fair 

 amount of support going for some of these programs just in Florida. 



Mr. Rogers. I would say 49 is a very insignificant number for the 

 importance of this field in our national affairs. I would hope the De- 

 partment would encourage perhaps some more work in this area. I did 

 not realize that you do not have any direction at all in any of these 

 programs. You just turn the money over to the schools for whatever 

 they want to do with it. Is this the way I understand you are doing it? 



Dr. LiNDQTJisT, Yes, sir; insofar as allocation of their allotted num- 

 ber of fellowships is concerned. The institutions apply for the pro- 

 grams that they would like supported, and the total number of fellow- 

 ships they would like to receive for the year. 



Mr. Rogers. Programs. What do you mean by "programs"? Do you 

 mean marine science programs ? 



Dr. LiNDQUiST. Marine science, chemistry, geology, history. 



Mr. Rogers. Then they do designate which programs they want you 

 to support ? 



