II. BUREAU OF CUSTOMS Customs inservice training school for customs inspectors (J) (M) Level: No formal educational requirements. Instruction at secondary or higher. Number: 392 supervisory and nonsupervisory received training in fiscal 1959. Cost: $19,900 in fiscal 1959. III. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE Inservice training of employees for technical, professional, and manage ment personnel (J) Level: Collegiate undergraduate and graduate. Number: 36,470 employees received this inservice training in fiscal 1959. Duration: Courses varying from 4 hours to 13 weeks. Authority: Internal Revenue Acts and Public Law 85-507. IV. ALL TREASURY DEPARTMENT BUREAUS Formal inservice training for the technical, managerial, and executive development of employees (J) Level: Orientation courses to top management levels. Number: 16,724 employees received instruction in fiscal 1959. Authority: Public Law 85-507. For further information write U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION The Veterans' Administration administers three large educational programs for veterans and their surviving children. These programs provide: (1) Vocational rehabilitation for disabled veterans; (2) readjustment training for World War II and Korean veterans; and (3) war orphans educational assistance. In addition, the Veterans' Administration provides training for some of its employees. All of these programs are carried out wholly or partly in established educational institutions. Vocational rehabilitation training for World War II veterans was terminated on July 25, 1960. With few exceptions, Korean conflict veterans must complete such training before February 1, 1964. Except for a small number of persons, "readjustment" training for World War II veterans closed on July 25, 1956. Such training for Korean veterans may continue to January 31, 1965. 1. VETERAN TRAINING 1. Vocational rehabilitation of disabled veterans (C)(M) Level: In university, college, technical, normal schools, teachers colleges, business colleges, secondary and high schools. Number: By the close of 1959, 614,000 World War II and 60,000 Korean War veterans had entered training. Cost: $23,100,000 for fiscal year 1959; and $17,900,000 for fiscal year 1960. Authority: Chapter 31, title 38, U.S.C. 2. Readjustment training for World War II and Korean veterans (GI bill) (C)(M) Level: At universities, colleges, secondary and business schools. Number: 57,000 Korean conflict veterans entered training for the first time in 1960 of which 51 percent entered institutions of higher learning; 410,000 enrolled in November 1959 when program was at its peak. Cost: $565,984,930 tuition costs in fiscal year 1959 for Korean veterans; $304,586 tuition costs for World War II veterans in fiscal year 1959, and $371 million in fiscal year 1960, a decrease of 34 percent from payments in fiscal year 1959. Authority: Public Law 85-857; chapter 33, title 38, U.S.C., Public Law 346. 3. War Orphans Educational Assistance Act (C) (M) Level: Higher education, vocational education. Number: 4,485 students took advantage of this program for the first time in 1959; 6,900 in fiscal year 1960. Cost: Fiscal year 1959, $7,663,348 expended; and fiscal year 1960, $11,500,000, an increase of 50 percent over preceding year. Authority: Chapter 35, title 38 U.S.C. II. DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY 1. Employee training program (FS)(GS)(J) (C) Level: Generally postgraduate: (a) medical internships; (b) on job; (c) administrative. Number: 18,350 persons received training in fiscal year 1959. Authority: 38 U.S.Č. 813; 38 U.S.C.; Public Law 330, 80th Congress, Public Law 85-507. For further information write Veterans' Administration or appropriate regional office, Veterans' Administration. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, AND JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF "The Department of Defense operates three colleges and two institutes which serve all branches of the Armed Forces. These are: (1) the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; (2) the National War College; (3) the Department of Defense Military Assistance Institute; (4) the Armed Forces Institute; and (5) the Armed Forces Staff College. "Arrangements for the administration and fiscal support of these educational institutions vary. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Department of the Army bear responsibilities for the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the National War College, which train selected military and civilian personnel for important assignments. Under the technical direction of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Armed Forces Staff College, with fiscal support by the Navy, trains officers for duty in joint operations. The Army is executive agent for the Military Assistance Institute, an educational facility operated under contract for the training of officers for duty in connection with Military Assistance Advisory Groups. In addition, under the operational control of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, the U.S. Armed Forces Institute offers the Armed Forces correspondence courses at all educational levels." 1. Industrial College of the Armed Forces (GS) Level: Graduate. Number: 142 residents; 3,472 correspondent course students; 1,722 civilian; 2,901 military students in National Defense Resources Conference Course. Duration: Resident course, 10 months; NDRC, 2 weeks. 2. National War College (GS) Level: Graduate and postdoctoral. Number: 133 residents. Duration: 1 year. Cost: Total, $1,455,215 in fiscal 1959. Authority: National Defense Act. 3. Department of Defense Military Assistance Institute (GS) Level: Graduate. Number: 985 residents. Duration: 4 weeks. Cost: Total, $297,000 in fiscal 1959. Authority: Military Assistance Program. 4. Armed Forces Staff College (GS) Level: Graduate. Number: 416 residents. Duration: 5 months' course. Cost: Not feasible to break down. Authority: Navy Regulations Article 0040.2 (10 U.S.C. 6011). 5. Armed Forces Institute (M) Level: Secondary through college. Number: 145,000 in correspondence courses, 85,000 under group study; 11,000 participating in colleges and universities. Cost: Total, $3,240,884 in fiscal 1959. Authority: War Department directive AR 350–3100; DOD instruction 5,000.2 July 20, 1949, enclosure 1, charter USAFI. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 1. Armed Service school system (M) (J) Level: Elementary to college graduate. Cost: Total, $180 million. Authority: National Defense Act, as amended. 2. U.S. Military Academy at West Point Level: 4-year college academic program, leading to B.S. degree. Number: 500 graduates per year, enrollment 2,528. Costs: $12,400,528 in fiscal 1959; $12,112,000 in fiscal 1960. Authority: National Defense Act, amended, title 10, section 1041. 3. Reserve officers' training program (ROTC) (C) (M) Level: College, junior college, certain high schools. Number: 222,000 students. Costs: $15,672,000. Authority: National Defense Act, as amended. 4. U.S. Army Reserve school system (USAR) Level: College and postgraduate level. Number: 20,750 students. Costs: $300,000 in fiscal 1959. Authority: National Defense Act, as amended. 5. Training activities connected with military assistance (F) (M) Level: All educational levels. Number: 35 countries participating; 3,000 students overseas; 7,000 students in United States. Cost: $44,500,000 in fiscal 1959. Authority: Mutual Security Act of 1954, Public Law 665, 83d Congress, amended. 6. Training of military personnel in civilian institutions (C) Level: College graduate. Number: 1,023 students in short-term courses; 691 in full-year courses or longer. Cost: $4,289,200 in fiscal 1959. Authority: National Defense Act, as amended. 7. Army exchange-of-persons program to Ryukyuans (F) Level: College graduate level exclusively. Number: 10 national leaders; 59 students. Cost: $412,000 in fiscal 1959. Authority: Public Law 86-766, August 28, 1958. 8. Education and training of civilian employees (J) Level: Through college levels. Number: 14,308 trainees. 9. Foreign area specialists training (C) (GS) Level: Postgraduate levels (Russian, Japanese, etc.). Number: 91 students. Duration: 4-year courses, including studies in country of specialization. Cost: $77,749 in fiscal 1959. Authority: National Defense Act, as amended, section 127-A. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE, NAVY DEPARTMENT 1. Management development program (C) Level: Primarily postgraduate level. Number: 80 students. Duration: Minimum 6 months inservice training supplemented by academic study. Cost: $92,740 (salaries) $14,000 administrative in fiscal 1959. 2. Local universities afterhours educational program (C) Level: Advanced undergraduate and graduate level. Number: Approximately 1,000 participants. Cost: $30,000 in fiscal 1959. Authority: Public Law 85-507. BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS 3. Employee development program (J) (C) (M) Level: Secondary to graduate university level. Number: Number of students participating not available. Cost: Operating and administrative funds not available; $284,297 funds paid to non-Government facilities for instruction. Authority: Annual appropriation act. 4. Naval Air Training Command (GS) Level: College and postgraduate level. Cost: $191 million in fiscal 1959. Authority: General authorization implemented by directives from Secretary of the Navy. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY 5. Medical training in Navy Department and civilian schools (GS) (C) Level: College and postgraduate. Number: 679 students. Cost: $2,859,127 in fiscal 1959. Authority: Annual appropriation act. 6. U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine (GS) Level: Graduate and postdoctoral. Number: 182 students. Cost: $204,661 in fiscal 1959. Authority: General authorization implemented by Secretary of the Navy directives. |