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Harvard's students returned to Cambridge in early January, and with them came Fred L. Glimp '50, as the new vice president for alumni affairs. Glimp, who was dean of admissions in the early 1960s and dean of the College during the turbulent late 60s, succeeded Chase N. Peterson...
...legislation. "It's no secret that this is a political payment on a 1976 promise and a down payment on the 1980 election," says Bruce Wood of the House Subcommittee on Education and Labor." The Department of Education represents the spoils of interest group politics." Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) observes that the National Education Association--the bill's hardest pushing and most important lobby--never endorsed a presidential candidate until Carter promised he would create a Department of Education. Rep. John N. Erlenborn (R-Ill.) is less kind. "H.R. 13778 is a political payoff in every sense...
Many people prefer a grander view, however; they see the bill as an indicator of the government's outlook on education. Paul N. Ylvisaker, dean of the Graduate School of Education, says the prevailing attitudes are being shaped by people who no longer have children in school. "The parents of those in school are in the minority," says Ylvisaker, adding that the national feeling towards education is unfavorable. Current government spending problems and reordering of national priorities threaten, as one longtime observer puts it, "to once again leave education out in the cold." The battle over a Cabinet-level Department...
Opponents of the legislation, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds armed with a variety of different axes to grind, argue that a new Cabinet level department would simply add more fatty tissue to the federal blob. Some, like Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.). believe that funding lies at the heart of the system's problem and that "increased appropriations are not dependent upon the creation of a new department." Individuals like Rosenthal and organizations like the United States Catholic Conference--a major lobby for private school interests--argue that the legislation's proponents must prove...
Even if the department is created, however, opponents believe it will be dominated by public, elementary and secondary education interests. Many, including the outspoken Sen. Daniel P. Monyihan (D-N.Y.) predict higher education--slated to receive one of every three dollars in the new department's budget--will take a beating under the new system. The post-secondary sector currently accounts for 40 to 50 per cent of federal funds allocated for education, but the inclusion of overseas dependent schools for 135,000 Americans in the Department promises to severely drain available resources...