Word: ndea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard is receiving $250,000 in National Defense Education loan funds for 1963-64, the same as last year, despite widespread cuts in NDEA allocations which have hit other colleges...
Under a formula which ties the percentage of NDEA funds that a state can receive to its proportion of the national college population, loan requests in four New England states were slashed 40 to 50 per cent this month. No cuts were suffered by institutions in Massachusetts and Connecticut, however, since those states have relatively large numbers of students...
Legislation to raise NDEA's annual authorisation from the current $90 million to $125 million has already passed the House and was cleared by the Senate Labor Committee last week If passed, the bill would restore much of the cuts announced this month, and would make possible expanded grants to universities already receiving the maximum allocation...
...also in October that Congress voted to repeal the disclaimer affidavit provision of the National Defense Education Act, thus ending a three-year fight on the part of President Pusey and the University. The Corporation voted November 5 to rejoin the loan program and Harvard began receiving NDEA funds in January...
Griswold was also a national leader in the fight for academic freedom, opposing McCarthyism and taking a firm stand against the NDEA disclaimer affidavit...