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library books and materials, $3,750,000 for training about 800 persons in the information sciences, $3,550,000 for approximately 70 research and demonstration projects to improve libraries and training, and $3 million for the Library of Congress to acquire materials and provide catalog and bibliographic information. In order to assist smaller developing colleges to raise their academic quality, title III authorizes cooperative arrangements such as faculty and student exchange, curriculum improvement, and sharing of facilities, with older, established institutions. Our request of $30 million assumes legislative extension of the program, and will support about 650 such agreements and an estimated 180 national teaching fellowships.

Educational opportunity grants under title IV will enable exceptionally needy students to pursue a higher education at a time when rising costs have made it impossible for millions of youths to obtain degrees. We are requesting $119,500,000 for 220,000 grants, and $2,500,000 for contracts to identify such youths and encourage them to complete their education.

Insured loans will also help to relieve the burdens so many families face in sending their children to college. Our estimate of $43 million includes $10 million for advances to State and nonprofit private loan insurance programs and $33 million for interest payments for about 775,000 qualified students.

Title IV also provides a work-study program for college students, particularly those from low-income families, who need earnings to pursue a higher education. Our request of $134,100,000 will support part-time employment for an estimated 210,000 students by the fall of 1967.

Qualified teachers are the vital factor in improving education at any level. For title V, $31,372,000 is requested for the National Teacher Corps to improve the educational opportunities of disadvantaged children in urban and rural areas. This amount will support salary and continuation costs for 3,750 members to begin teaching in September 1966 and training and other costs for an additional 850 teachers who will be placed by September 1967. Also included are $37,500,000 for 5,800 graduate fellowships to provide advanced training for elementary and secondary teachers, and $5 million for grants to assist institutions in strengthening their teacher education programs.

Finally, we are requesting $17 million under title VI to help improve the quality of classroom instruction in colleges and universities. An amount of $14,500,000 will support grants to about 300 institutions for television and other equipment, and $2,500,000 will fund approximately 35 institutes to train almost 1,000 college teachers in the effective use of such equipment. We will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

STATEMENT BY ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ON "STUDENT LOAN INSURANCE FUND, OFFICE OF EDUCATION"

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, we are requesting $3,200,000 for the Student Loan Insurance Fund for 1967, an increase of $2,700,000 over 1966.

Under the programs authorized by the Higher Education and the National Vocational Student Loan Insurance Acts of 1965, those elegible students who do not have access to a guaranteed loan program of a State or nonprofit agency can obtain insurance on loans directly from the Federal Government. Although it is anticipated that most students will be able to obtain insured loans through nonFederal sources, we do not have enough information at this time as to whether guarantee funds from those sources will be available to all students. Therefore, we are requesting $3 million to insure loans for 60,000 higher education students, assuming an average loan of $500, and $200,000 to insure loans for 5,000 vocational students, at an average loan of $400. This is submitted as a separate account since a revolving fund must be established in order to collect the insurance premiums and to invest unused funds in U.S. securities.

This request will complete the coverage of insured loans for both vocational and higher educational students who need such assistance in order to pursue their studies.

We will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

GENERAL STATEMENT

Mr. FOGARTY. We have enjoyed your previous appearances here and I, for one, believe you have been doing a good job.

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Thank you.

I am here today to report on the higher educational activities. The above statement describes the appropriations we are seeking for several of the programs under the recently enacted Higher Education Act. The first of those is title I, which is the grants for community services. There we are seeking to have an appropriation of $20 million.

The above statement goes to support our appropriation requests for the library title under that same act and for the rather intriguing program entitled "Assistance to Developing Institutions" which is part of the Higher Education Act.

Then for a series of student aid programs which are part of title IV of the Higher Eduaction Act, including the opportunity grants, the insured loan program, and an expanded college work study program.

My statement also supports the teacher scholarship provision of the Higher Education Act which includes the Teacher Corps and fellowship support for the training of elementary and secondary schoolteachers, both those that propose to be teachers and those who are now teachers, and wish to improve themselves.

Finally, the statement is in support of title VI of the Higher Education Act which proposes to help colleges and universities purchase equipment, presumably to improve the teaching opportunities in the classrooms that are helped under the Facilities Act.

BUDGET REQUEST

All in all, the request is an increase over the 1966 level. We are requesting $475,272,000 and that represents an increase of $232,449,000 over the 1966 level. I will do the best I can to respond to the questions you might have upon this.

COMPARISON OF AUTHORIZATIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, AND REQUEST

Mr. FOGARTY. Now, how much of the request is dependent on additional authorizing legislation?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. One of the titles that we are talking about is title III of the Higher Education Act. It does need additional legislation in order to provide an authorization.

Mr. FOGARTY. How much money does that amount to?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. That amounts to $30 million that we are requesting for title III of the Higher Education Act. It doesn't have an authorization in the legislation at the moment.

Mr. FOGARTY. Will you prepare a table for 1966 showing for each activity the amount authorized, the amount appropriated, the amount transferred in or out, the estimated supplemental and estimated total funds to be available, and then add two columns for 1967 to show the authorization and the request for each activity?

Mr. MUIRHEAD. I will be pleased to do that.

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2 Plus such amounts as may be necessary for continuing awards.

3 No dollar amount required to be authorized.

Represents total authorization for fiscal years 1966 through 1968.
Plus such sums as may be necessary.

Transferred to "Student loan insurance fund"; $3,000,000 requested under that account for 1967. 7 Includes $59,123,000 transferred from the Office of Economic Opportunity.

DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAMS

Mr. FOGARTY. You are requesting increases for all of the eight programs that are financed by this appropriation. Since this is the first time this committee has had a hearing on any of these programs, I think you had better go down the list on page 54 of your justifications and tell us what each program is, what you are doing this year, and why you need the increase for 1967. Can you go right down the list?

GRANTS TO STATES FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Starting with the grants to States for community services and continuing education programs, which is title I of the Higher Education Act, that program is now being established. We have moved to the point of seeking to set up what the act requires;

State commissions to carry out the program. There is in the process of being appointed an advisory committee to advise as to the policies and procedures to be followed in carrying out this program. It is our present hope that this program will be in place and operating before the end of this college year.

I turn now to Mr. Ludington, who has charge of administering this program, to ask if he might have anything else to add to that.

Mr. LUDINGTON. The Presidential Council required in the act has been appointed-it was named last Friday, I believe. Letters have gone to all of the State Governors with reference to the designation of the administering State agency or institition. We have heard from some 32 of them although none of these have actually been put into being.

As soon as the President's Council reacts to the policies and procedures and the criteria for the approval of State plans, guidelines will be sent to the administering State agencies for the development of the required State plan. We are expecting more than half of the States to be in operation in this fiscal year.

STATE PARTICIPATION

Mr. FOGARTY. Will you give us a breakdown of the States that you think will be in operation?

(The information requested follows:)

LIST OF STATES WHICH HAVE EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN TITLE I OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965

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Mr. LUDINGTON. We can give you the letters we have received from Governors to date.

Mr. FOGARTY. How about Rhode Island?

Mr. LUDINGTON. Rhode Island has not yet submitted its intention in this respect.

Mr. FOGARTY. Why not?

Mr. LUDINGTON. I do not know why.

Mr. FOGARTY. Proceed, Mr. Muirhead.

COLLEGE LIBRARY TRAINING AND RESEARCH

Mr. MUIRHEAD. Moving now to the college library training and research assistance program, which is title II of the Higher Education Act, this particular program, as you, of course, know, was not funded during the present fiscal year, but we are seeking to supplement the appropriation to get this program established and underway. This program is under the direction

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.

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