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Direct linkLoss, Christopher P. – Princeton University Press, 2011
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, United States History, Educational History
Overall, Jesse U., IV – 1976
Discussed are the legislative evolution, nature, and impact of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (the G.I. Bill) on higher education. Influences on this legislation are traced back to Thomas Jefferson, and parallels with other federal legislation are discussed. The specific provisions of the act are treated, and the pervasive impacts of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational History, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
