Higher Education Act, 1965

Higher Education Act, 1965

Christina Knowlton, Ashlee McHaney & Latoya Heard

Lets Discuss

TITLE I:

• Based on the history of Higher Education, what institutions would have been considered “developing” in 1965? Who attended these institutions?

• In retrospect, in your opinion, what was the biggest flaw to HEA of 1965?

• What amendment would you add to the HEA of 1965 in today’s academic climate?

Community Service & Continuing Education

TITLE VII:

• Public or Private institutions could receive grants to match community service efforts

Amendments to the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963

General Information

• U.S. Commissioner of Education had to approve the comprehensive submitted for statewide community service projects

• Beginning on March 31, 1967, The President appointed National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education was “directed” to review the administration and effectiveness of federally supported education programs

Amended classroom construction act of 1963:

• Increased grants for undergraduate facilities by 230 million
• Increased grants for graduate facilities by 60 million
• Increased capacity to carry-out on campus expansions, continuing education programs, and removed restrictions on programs
• Permitted state transferred between junior and 4-year colleges
• 3% maximum rate of interest on loans for construction of academic facilities

TITLE VIII:

General Provisions

TITLE IV:

Student Assistance

• Enacted in 1966, the financial support was for three years initially
• Consisted of eight “Titles”
• The “Firsts”
• Federal funding / scholarships were available to undergraduate students, $70 million
• Funding for higher education to increase library “materials”, including books, $50 million

Defined higher education institutions:

• Non-profit four year
• Non-profit two year
• Business schools
• Technical schools

assists students by supporting undergraduate scholarships, loans with reduced interest rates, and work-study programs.

• Primary grant program was the educational opportunity grant
• Biggest controversy about the program was whether it should consist of tuition tax credits or grants.
• Settled for guaranteed student loans to compromise

Included areas:

D.C, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and Virgin Islands

NDEA Amendments

Title II: HEA of 1965

College and Library Assistance, Training and Research (PART A)

TITLE VI:

Improvement of Undergraduate Courses

Title II:

Increased funds for capital contributions to the national defense student loan program

Title III:

Added industrial arts to list of “critical subjects”

Amendments

Part C

provides financial assistance to improve undergraduate instruction (by, for example, providing assistance to those institutions that are unable to afford modern teaching materials).

• Authorize allocation of money to institutions for equipment
• Focused on faculty development
• Established awards to university officials for attending educational media workshops and trainings

• Allocated $50 million annually in 1966 - 1968 to improve Library Resources
• Each institution could not receive more than $5000.00 for matching the basis grants, 75% of the funding was reserved for this purpose
• Libraries could not reduce expenditures and the institutions had to match the grant on a 50-50 basis
• 25% of the budget was allocated to “special purposes”, including
• Colleges or Universities that demonstrated special needs for resources
• Plans for national or regional library and informational services programs
• Joint-use facilities
• The institutions had to match $1.00 for every $3.00
• Institutions could become accredited, if the grant assisted in raising standards

• 5 million in 1966
• 6.315 million in 1967
• 7.7 million in 1968
• To enable the Library of Congress to expand its centralized cataloging service
• To acquire scholarly materials

Part B

Title l: Authorized appropriations for undergraduate facilities and improvements

Title II: Authorized appropriations for graduate facilities and College Library Aid

Title III: Extended assistance programs for developing institution

Title IV: Authorized D.C Board of Commissions to establish student loan program and Created a study to look at loan insurance programs

Title VI:

Required institutions applying for college equipment grants, use their current funds for institutional and library purposes

• 15 million to train librarians and information science specialists, research demonstration projects related to the improvement of libraries
• Repealed a provision in the National Defense Act of 1958, authorizing training institutes for elementary and secondary school librarians

TITLE V:

Teacher Programs

concentrates on improving the quality of teaching (supporting, for example, teacher preparation programs designed to attract recent graduates into the teaching field, and advanced training for experienced teachers).

• Specified programs to apply to others not just teachers
• Authorized stipends and living allowances

Title III: HEA of 1965

Strengthening and Developing Institutions

• 55 million in 1966 to raise the academic quality of developing institutions
• 78% allocated to 4-year colleges
• 28% allocated to 2- year colleges
• Waived accreditation for institutions, “making reasonable progress towards accreditation” and in existence for more than 5 years
• Grants to strengthen academic programs and administration by:
• Exchanging of faculty or students
• Fellowships or Work-study
• Joint use facilities, such as libraries and laboratories
• National Teaching Fellowships, for graduate students or junior faculty to receive for up to two years, $6500.00, plus $400.00 for each dependent