Word: ndea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton and Brown Universities have announced they will rejoin the NDEA student loan program...
...Columbia University the Student-Faculty Committee Against NDEA Amendments is continuing to disapprove of the loan program. The committee, led by 60 students and several faculty members, objects to three amendments that Congress added when the disclaimer affidavit was removed...
...letter to the New York Times the committee interpreted the amendments making it a crime for a member of the Communist Party, an defined by the Warren Act to apply for NDEA funds. The committee also objected to the vagueness of the amendment which states the Commissioner of Education can cancel or revoke an award if he thinks an award is "not in the best interests of the United States." The Columbia group protests that this amendment connotes "no guarantees of due process for the student...
Though Columbia has not yet announced whether it will rejoin the NDEA program, Grayson Kirk, president of the Faculty, has referred to the amendments as "not ones we would want to live with...
Radcliffe's College Council has officially decided to follow Harvard back into the NDEA program, but no decision has been made as to whether to request any independent fund allocation...