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Direct linkStevens, Mitchell L. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
The conclusion of World War II created anxiety about how to accommodate the return of millions of veterans and spurred the passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944--the GI Bill--that would ultimately send two million people to college. But in 1946, the second year of Truman's Presidency, there was an even larger political question. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Politics of Education, Educational History, United States History
Rumann, Corey; Rivera, Marisa; Hernandez, Ignacio – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
Higher education and the military have been linked throughout U.S. history. Following World War II, the President's Commission on Higher Education released "Higher Education for American Democracy," popularly known as the Truman Commission Report of 1946. It called for, among other things, the establishment of a network of public community…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Community Colleges, War, Veterans
Download full textNational Council on Disability, 2012
Despite a dark history marked by the eugenics movement, increasing numbers of people with disabilities are choosing to become parents. Recent research reveals that more than 4 million parents--6 percent of American mothers and fathers--are disabled. This number will unquestionably increase as more people with disabilities exercise a broader range…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Civil Rights, Physical Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities
