Commission on Independent College3.and Universities
(518) 436-4781 37 Elk Street, Albany, 12224

 

7 May 1979

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Office of the President
Rockefeller University
66th Street at York Avenue
New York, New York 10021

Dear President Lederberg:

The cicu has a Graduate Programs Committee which is chaired
by President Norman Lamm of Yeshiva University. The next
meeting of this committee will be on Friday, May 18, 10:00 am
at 26 West 56th Street, New York City.

At that meeting it is planned to commence discussion as to how
our graduate institutions might gain a higher priority from the
state and federal governments for graduate education and
research. From the discussions we hope to develop a legis-
lative program to strengthen assistance to these areas.

The cicu staff has been gathering data concerning graduate
education and research for this purpose. May I request that you
have a member of your staff send to me information on the number
of your students who are engaged in post-doctoral research and
what the topics of their research are.

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I would appreciate receiving this information in time for our
meeting On May 18th. You may be interested to know that similar
requests are being sent to other graduate institutions.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely,

Howard B. Maxwell
Vice President for
Planning and Research

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