The purported "Golden Age" of American higher education, typically associated with the two decades following World War II, was marked by increasingly generous federal support of the nation's postsecondary institutions and their students. Unlike analyses that attribute this largesse to factors like geopolitics (i.e., a response to the…

The examination of administrative and political issues in career education entitlement (voucher) plans opens with a discussion of various rationales and models for entitlement programs. A discussion of existing and proposed entitlement schemes covers the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program (BEOG), the educational benefits provided under…

This congressional report contains the testimony given at a hearing that was convened to review a bill to make permanent the educational assistance provisions for members of the All-Volunteer Force and the Selected Reserve that are generally known as the New GI Bill. The report includes testimony that was given by representatives of the following…