Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal Help. Despite the rapid growth of the community colleges, U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel finds that "they have not expanded at the dramatic rate needed for the increasing population of students- we are just beginning." A considerably bigger boost will come from a 1963 education bill, just now being implemented, by which $232 million this year and $464 million next year will be granted to help build college facilities, 22% of it going to public junior colleges. While the bulk of financial support for such public colleges still comes from funds of local communities, state aid is generally...
Since coming to Washington, Keppel has gone to Capitol Hill 17 times to testify before committees of the 88th Congress, which enacted 14 major education bills, providing federal money for student loans, vocational training, construction of university facilities, etc. An urbane, persuasive champion of higher educational standards, Keppel gave 101 speeches to groups as varied as the National Symphony Orchestra Association, the United Jewish Appeal and the Chamber of Commerce. (To keep him from furiously racing through speeches, his assistant, John Naisbitt, writes on each page, "Slow down...
...magazine American Education, to be published ten times a year starting this month and sent free to influential citizens such as judges, businessmen, labor leaders, physicians. Educators and others must subscribe to get the magazine, and 20,000 have already sent in the $3 price of a subscription. Keppel does not particularly mind that federal education programs are parceled out among 42 different departments and agencies: "You're a lot better off with a lot of allies...
...Keppel and his job have grown so important that last week no fewer than three legislators, including Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Kennedy's original appointee as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, introduced legislation to create a separate Department of Education with Cabinet status to consolidate under one roof most Federal Government educational activities...
...Keppel, who has clearly a free hand in running his office under self-effacing Secretary Anthony Celebrezze, is tactfully noncommittal about such legislation. "I came to Washington to work for Celebrezze and I'm happy as a clam," he says...