Word: ndea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coincidence, the House yesterday voted a three-year extension of the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which for several years also required recipients to sign disclaimers. The NDEA bill was approved by 320-20 margin and sent to the Senate, where passage by a similar majority is expected this afternoon...
Peter K. Gunness, assistant director of Admissions and Financial Aid, estimated yesterday that Harvard would receive between $75 and $1 million dollars from the NDEA funds this year. Last year, the University was given approximately $350,000 in loan funds...
...that time, however, a ceiling of $500,000 per institution was in effect. This year, the ceiling was raised to $800,000, and the recently passed Senate bill, extending the NDEA for three years, eliminated the provision entirely. If the House follows the Senate's lead and abolishes the ceiling, Harvard's share of the loan funds could climb close to the $1 million dollar mark...
Even if the ceiling were removed, however, Harvard will probably still not receive the full amount it requested, Gunness cautioned. He pointed out that the NDEA money is distributed according to an elaborate formula which apportions money in relation to the number of institutions and students in a given region. "I would guess we'd never get the full amount we asked for," he said...
...Senate bill, in addition to eliminating the institutional ceiling, would also expand the loan and fellowship portions of the NDEA program. It increases the loan authorization from the present $135 million to $145 million in fiscal 1965, $165 million in 1966, $180 million in 1967, and $195 million...