Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFTER carefully weighing priorities" for the 1969 budget, President Johnson reduced federal grants for college building programs in order to increase academic research grants and aid to college students. The cutback in construction funds is sure to cause many colleges to delay expansion plans, and the corresponding increase in the other federal programs seems too small to offset rising costs. "We will certainly be worse off under this budget than we were under last year's," says Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Resources and Planning...
...built in the new Science Center. The Graduate School of Design and the Widener underground annex might also lose federal grants in the budget pinch. Mather House, however, will be financed completely with funds raised during the Program for Harvard College and has never been a candidate for government aid...
DESPITE the President's promise in his Education Message last Monday to "eliminate race and income as barriers to higher learning," the budget does not provide a substantial increase in student aid. The U.S. Office of Education will receive an additional 112 million dollars to help students, but Johnson wants more than half of this increase to be used for interest and other payments under his "guaranteed loan program." Frugal congressmen may ignore the President's recommendation that banks receive a service charge of 35 dollars for the cost of paper work involved in administering the plan, since it seems...
Peter K. Gunness, Director of Financial Aid, says that "there is a great deal of frustration among those of us concerned with student assistance" because "everyone who can help solve the problem assumes that someone else will...
Universities have not been able to increase their aid funds fast enough to keep them in balance with the rising student need. Private foundations have stopped funding programs like the National Merit Scholarships, which the Ford Foundation sponsored in the past, so that they can concentrate on research. State governments have generally assumed that the federal government will provide the necessary help; those that do have aid programs either do not fund them or require that students use the aid at state universities...