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Mr. FOGARTY. Will the committee have this information by Easter? Mr. MUIRHEAD. The committee may have the information today if it wants it as to the

Mr. FOGARTY. About the number of colleges that are going to qualify?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Yes. The committee can expect to have during the month of April, about Eastertime as the chairman has indicated, information on the proposals that we have received and I hope some decisions as to what will happen to those proposals after they have been received.

Mr. FOGARTY. What is the next one?

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Next is the educational opportunity grants. This is part of title IV of the Higher Education Act and is designed to provide scholarships for young people from low-income families, families with markedly low income. The thrust of this program is to encourage additional numbers of young people from disadvantaged areas if you will, disadvantaged high schools, disadvantaged homes, to go on with their higher education. It is intended to be looked upon as part of a pattern of student financial aid. The young person who would get a grant here could have available to him also a loan and presumably could also participate in the college work-study program, so that a combination of all three would make it possible for him to get a higher education.

I can't emphasize too much that this program is intended to help the young lad or the young lassie who comes on the college campus without a nickel in his pockets. In other words this, in combination with the loan program and the work-study program, can help them get a higher education.

Mr. FOGARTY. All right, what is the next one?

INSURED LOAN PROGRAM

Mr. MUIRHEAD. The next one is the insured loan program which would set up a program of guaranteed loans and these loans would be available to students who come from families earning less than $15,000. The program is in reality in three parts. First of all, it provides advance moneys to States to set up their own guaranteed loan programs in which they would then offer the benefits of these programs to the residents of their State to study where the student wishes to study.

If the State does not have a guaranteed loan program or has no prospect of having one in the near future, then the act directs the Commissioner of Education to attempt to make an agreement with a nonprofit private agency, and at the moment the principal nonprofit private agencies or agency in this business is the United Student Aid Fund and they would stand in the same relationship to the student and the State that a State agency would stand.

If it becomes evident that these opportunities will not be available to all young people in all States, then the Federal Government may

Mr. FOGARTY. That has not arrived on the Hill yet, has it; this request?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. No, sir.

Mr. FOGARTY. When do you think it will get up here?

Mr. CARDWELL. Fairly soon.

Mr. FOGARTY. That is not too good an answer.

Mr. CARDWELL. The particular item is awaiting the approval of the President and we are assuming when he returns it will come up. Mr. MUIRHEAD. This particular program will provide assistance to libraries and the purchase of library materials. It will also provide an opportunity to train librarians and others interested in the information sciences and will provide some additional research authority in the field of library science.

Mr. FOGARTY. The supplemental is $11 million, is that right?
Mr. MUIRHEAD. That is right.

Mr. FOGARTY. And you are asking for $35 million, an increase of $24 million?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. That is right.

Mr. FOGARTY. Go to the next one.

STRENGTHENING DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONS

Mr. MUIRHEAD. This one is the strengthening of developing institutions. This particular title, which is title III of the Higher Education Act, is funded this year at the level of $5 million. We are asking to have that increased in the next year to $30 million. We have made arrangements already to draw up the necessary application forms and the other administrative procedures to get this program under

way.

We expect to send them out to the colleges by the end of this month and to receive proposals from the colleges by the end of March and draw in a panel to advise us on the proposals that are received and make awards under this program during the early part of

Mr. FLOOD. To do what? I don't know what you are taking about. Mr. MUIRHEAD. The "strengthening developing institutions" is intended to assist weaker colleges, to strengthen their own faculty, and to provide for interchange of faculty between smaller colleges and larger institutions and to support a program of national fellowships where graduate students or graduate assistants may spend a year or two studying and doing research work at developing institutions.

It is very closely related, Mr. Flood, and Mr. Chairman, to the discussion you had yesterday on the predominantly Negro colleges of the Nation. It is not directed solely at that. It is a rather reasonable thing to presume that predominantly Negro colleges will be principal beneficiaries of this program, and it is hoped through this program we can strengthen a good many of the predominantly Negro colleges in the Nation and move them to higher standards of quality.

Mr. FOGARTY. This program was conceived to help the small colleges. Mr. MUIRHEAD. Yes, sir.

Mr. FOGARTY. When will you have this information, by Eastertime? Mr. MUIRHEAD. Yes.

Mr. FOGARTY. Will the committee have this information by Easter? Mr. MUIRHEAD. The committee may have the information today if it wants it as to the

Mr. FOGARTY. About the number of colleges that are going to qualify?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Yes. The committee can expect to have during the month of April, about Eastertime as the chairman has indicated, information on the proposals that we have received and I hope some decisions as to what will happen to those proposals after they have been received.

Mr. FOGARTY. What is the next one?

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Next is the educational opportunity grants. This is part of title IV of the Higher Education Act and is designed to provide scholarships for young people from low-income families, families with markedly low income. The thrust of this program is to encourage additional numbers of young people from disadvantaged areas if you will, disadvantaged high schools, disadvantaged homes, to go on with their higher education. It is intended to be looked upon as part of a pattern of student financial aid. The young person who would get a grant here could have available to him also a loan and presumably could also participate in the college work-study program, so that a combination of all three would make it possible for him to get a higher education.

I can't emphasize too much that this program is intended to help the young lad or the young lassie who comes on the college campus without a nickel in his pockets. In other words this, in combination with the loan program and the work-study program, can help them get a higher education.

Mr. FOGARTY. All right, what is the next one?

INSURED LOAN PROGRAM

Mr. MUIRHEAD. The next one is the insured loan program which would set up a program of guaranteed loans and these loans would be available to students who come from families earning less than $15,000. The program is in reality in three parts. First of all, it provides advance moneys to States to set up their own guaranteed loan programs in which they would then offer the benefits of these programs to the residents of their State to study where the student wishes to study.

If the State does not have a guaranteed loan program or has no prospect of having one in the near future, then the act directs the Commissioner of Education to attempt to make an agreement with a nonprofit private agency, and at the moment the principal nonprofit private agencies or agency in this business is the United Student Aid Fund and they would stand in the same relationship to the student and the State that a State agency would stand.

If it becomes evident that these opportunities will not be available to all young people in all States, then the Federal Government may

execute agreements with lending agencies and guarantee the loans directly.

COLLEGE WORK-STUDY PROGRAM

Mr. FOGARTY. Now, the work-study program.

Mr. MUIRHEAD. The work-study program, as the name implies, is a college work-study program to distinguish it from the work-study program we were discussing a little earlier. The college work-study program is designed to provide 90 percent of the costs of providing jobs to young people on campus. It also supports off-campus work. Until this year it was part of the poverty program and had a very strict financial means test attached to it. Now, with the transfer from OEO to the Office or Education, the financial needs test has been broadened to include a larger number of students so that it has much the same financial means test that applies to the National Defense Education loan program. Hence, there will be more young people eligible for the college work-study program under its present requirements than was the case before."

TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS

The teacher training and services program, these particular programs are included under title V of the Higher Education Act and consist of a number of programs. One is the Teacher Corps. That was not funded last year and is in the same category fiscally speaking as is the library program. We would expect the administration to have a supplementary appropriation.

Mr. FOGARTY. That should be up here in a few days too.

Mr. CARDWELL. That is one that should leave the minute the Secretary returns.

Mr. FOGARTY. This is something the President is very much interested in. I told him last week we would hold hearings on it as soon as we receive it. This is going to be for about $13 million; is that right?

Mr. CARDWELL. $13.2 million.

Mr. MUIRHEAD. The particular program includes a fellowship program for the training of prospective elementary and secondary teachers and provides opportunity also for teachers who are now teaching in the elementary and secondary schools to take additional graduate training. It also includes a provision for strengthening and hopefully improving the quality of teacher preparation programs. Those parts of the program, the fellowship and the institutional-grant program for improving teacher preparation, are about to be put into operation.

We expect to be making announcements with regard to fellowships both for experienced teachers and for prospective teachers probably during the month of April or early May. We will be pleased to see to it that the committee is kept abreast of the progress.

Mr. FLOOD. This gives the teacher a chance to get an increase in salary ordinarily; isn't that so?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. I am sure that is so.

Mr. FOGARTY. In most States.

What is the next one?

UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTIONAL EQUIPMENT PROGRAM

Mr. MUIRHEAD. The final program on this paper is the undergraduate instructional equipment program which is title VI of the Higher Education Act and is designed to provide assistance to colleges and universities in purchasing equipment, equipment that will hopefully make for better teaching in the college classrooms.

Mr. FOGARTY. I notice you have Mr. Bright over there in the back who I met a year or two ago when he was with industry developing some of this equipment. He perhaps knows more about it than you do.

Mr. MUIRHEAD. I am sure he knows a great deal more about it than I do.

Mr. FOGARTY. This is something new to me. I took the time to go up there and take a look at some of the equipment they are working on at Westinghouse. He was working there at the time and I think it might be interesting to the committee to know some of the things that are being done and what the possibilities are.

My city of Providence is trying to get into this.

Mr. Bright has been in this field for some time. I was very impressed with what I saw there a year ago. Of course, there may be others who are doing better than Westinghouse, I don't know. Mr. BRIGHT. There are others in the field, certainly.

HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT Mr. FOGARTY. Go ahead. Tell us about some of these things that are being developed and what some of the possibilities are. I think it is a good story.

Mr. BRIGHT. Historically, if you look over the educational field, you find that there have been almost no examples of equipment developed for education. Almost all the audiovisual aids we use, the language laboratories and so on, if you look at them closely, they are just slight modifications of equipment that was really designed for consumer use, in one or two cases for military use and, frankly, was not designed for educational applications.

We are pleased that this trend is now changing. There is a lot of work going on in the country where people are looking intensively at the education field to determine just exactly what functions are necessary or are valuable for school use, and developing specific equipment for this use.

One of the most sophisticated of all of these, of course, is the computerized instruction. The Office of Education at the present time is supporting two activities in that field, one at the R. & D. Center at the University of Pittsburgh, and the other one at Stanford and actually there are several other examples that the Office is supporting on the development of course materials to be used in such systems. Pennsylvania University is one of these examples; also Florida.

These computerized systems have a tremendous application for dealing with two different types of populations, one where you have students with very widely varying backgrounds so that it is difficult. to have a conventional curriculum that will meet the needs of this great variation among the students.

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