Word: ndea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard may submit a few request for up to $800,000 in NDEA loan funds for the current fiscal year, under an amended National Defense Education Act authorization bill which passed the Senate yesterday. The bill raised the maximum amount available to any one institution from $250,000 to $800,000, and authorized a four step increase in total expenditures from the current $90 million to $150 million in fiscal '67. A bill passed by the House earlier this year authorized annual expenditures of $135 million...
...University received allotments of $250,000 in NDEA funds this year and last year. The requests of many other institutions, however, were slashed below the maximum by the Office of Education earlier this Fall when it was not certain that the amended bill would pass...
...NDEA measure was part of an overall education bill authorizing $3.2 billion for vocational training, college loans and impacted areas...
Expansion of the NDEA loan fund and raising the amount available to any one institution rest, of course, in the uncertain hands of Congress. But observers report that sentiment in Washington is more favorable now toward aid to education than at any time in recent years, and officials in the Office of Education are privately elated at the string of successes they have...
There is hope, therefore, that Congress will move from the modest NDEA program to a large commitment to increasing educational opportunity. In so doing, supporters who are leery of the very real problem of federal control might take instruction from the NDEA example. Like any federal program, NDEA established a set of priorities, and educators must not let its emphasis on science and languages argue against support of the social sciences and humanities. But except for the abberation of section 1001 (f), NDEA has been free from the tight supervision and bureaucratic nitpicking that can hamstring federal programs. While...