Comment on FR Doc # 2026-12725 from Jennifer Corn
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Summary: The commenter opposes the proposed NSF guidance, arguing that it imposes excessive regulatory control, economic impacts, and threats to academic freedom and independent science. They characterize the information collection as a gross overreach of the agency's authority.
Protect independent science from political interference. The NSF proposal creates additional institutional requirements, imposes significant economic impacts on grantees, and implements sweeping regulatory control over institutes of higher education via information collection. This attempt to regulate speech and academic freedom at independent universities is a gross overreach of NSF's authority.