{"id":7879,"date":"2017-12-15T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:13:23","slug":"fcc-rolls-back-net-neutrality-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/2017\/12\/15\/fcc-rolls-back-net-neutrality-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Rolls Back Net Neutrality Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>BU IN DC<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kevin Gallagher<\/strong> of the <strong>Pardee School of Global Studies<\/strong> addressed a Center for Strategic and International Studies roundtable on Chinese development finance in Latin America on December 12.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>FCC ROLLS BACK NET NEUTRALITY RULES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal regulations that ensure Internet service providers give users equal access to all web content. Universities opposed the repeal of the &#8220;net neutrality&#8221; rules due to fears that access to research materials and educational content would be stifled, stating &#8220;that open and neutral access to the Internet is essential to our nation&#8217;s freedom of speech, educational achievement, and economic growth.&#8221; Legal challenges to the decision are expected imminently and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) has announced he will introduce legislation to reverse the FCC&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aau.edu\/key-issues\/aau-sends-letter-fcc-support-current-net-neutrality-rules\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>BUZZ BITS&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On Wednesday, the House Education and the Workforce Committee passed its bill to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/news-room\/Pages\/House-Committee-Approves-Higher-Education-Act-Reauthorization-Bill.aspx\">reauthorize the Higher Education Act<\/a><\/strong>, setting up a possible vote by the full House of Representatives in January. The higher education community continued to express concern with the bill&#8217;s proposed reduction in financial aid for students.<\/li>\n<li>The White House issued a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/presidential-memorandum-reinvigorating-americas-human-space-exploration-program\/\">space policy directive<\/a><\/strong> on Monday that instructs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to work with private sector partners to return humans to the moon, followed by Mars exploration.<\/li>\n<li>The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking candidates to serve as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/od\/searches\/ehr-171128\/nsf_ad_ehr_search_letter.jsp\">Assistant Director of Education and Human Resources<\/a><\/strong>. Dr. James Lewis has been serving as acting director since Joan Ferrini-Mundy became NSF Chief Operating Officer in 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>GRANTS NEWS YOU CAN USE<\/h2>\n<p>The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) released a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Defense Enterprise Science Initiative (DESI), which seeks to incentivize use-inspired basic research programs by partnering universities and industry to solve key defense challenges and address capability gaps. The BAA lists four topics: power beaming; highly-maneuverable autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles; soft active composites with intrinsic sensing, actuation, and control; and metamaterial-based antennas. Applicant teams are also encouraged to submit proposals for defense challenges not listed. AFOSR intends to issue four awards of $1.5 million each. Applications are due by February 28.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grants.gov\/web\/grants\/view-opportunity.html?oppId=299112\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU IN DC Kevin Gallagher of the Pardee School of Global Studies addressed a Center for Strategic and International Studies roundtable on Chinese development finance in Latin America on December 12. &nbsp; FCC ROLLS BACK NET NEUTRALITY RULES On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal regulations that ensure Internet service providers give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7880,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}