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...study comes at a critical time for higher education lobbyists, when the Higher Education Authorization Act of 1965, the law that created most federal spending programs for higher education, including Pell grants, Stafford loans and other mainstays of college financing...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The tax and budget legislation that President Clinton signed into law on Tuesday includes $40 billion in tax breaks for college students and their families over the next five years, representing the largest change in federal higher education assistance since the establishment of the student loan and Pell Grant programs three decades...
Nixon also said the University wants to see an increase in Pell Grants, a program that benefits lower-income students and families who will for the most part not benefit from the new tuition tax credits...
...problem of defending art in the political arena is more complicated than just a case of accentuating the positive. Even great advocates of the arts, such as Senator Claiborne Pell, warned that one should "speak softly" in defense of the arts. The fear is that the public interest in the arts rests on very slim footing indeed, and that by arguing to vigorously, this weakness will become exposed. This is not an illfounded fear. Pell, of all people, should know...
...Pell retired this January after 36 years in the Senate. He was mainly responsible for the Pell grants and the creation of the national endowments for the arts and for the humanities. In a New York Times interview in December, the Senator revealed just how slim the footing for the endowments was in 1965. Pell spoke of conversations with Jacqueline Kennedy, who thought that the United States should have a minister of culture like France. Apparently President Kennedy was agreeable, but not too concerned. Pell went on to stress the importance of specific personalities in the creation of the endowments...