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Higher Education Act
Law
20 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.
(1965)
provided needs-based scholarships and loans for undergraduates and authorized a National Teachers Corps. Citing “the appalling frequency with which a student is presently forced to forgo the opportunity of [higher] education because of inability to meet the costs,” a Democratic Congress passed the bill as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society Program. The Act signaled a transition from institutional assistance to individual student aid.
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