Budget Stalemate Could Hurt Schools - DIANE DIETZ, The Register-Guard

The stakes are high for the University of Oregon and Oregon State University if the impending automatic, across-the-board cuts to the federal budget are not averted by Congress and President Barack Obama. That’s because the schools are among the top 100 research universities of 4,000 nationally, according to the Carnegie Classification system. The federal government pays the biggest chunk of the research done at Oregon universities, and they stand to lose, together, upwards of $28 million in 2013, should up to 10 percent of the federal budget be stripped on Jan. 2, as required by current law. And the impact of these cuts would be felt beyond the universities, said Barry Toiv, spokesman for the Association of American Universities. “Research is something most everybody realizes that the country has to do, and if we do more of it, we’ll all be better off, whether it’s the economy, whether there’s more cures for diseases, alternative forms of energy all kinds of things,” he said. http://diverseeducation.com/article/49689/