(NOTE.—The following materials illustrate the dissemination activity undertaken by the officer of education with reference to the programs authorized under their various authorities with respect to aids provided students and institutions of higher education.)

higher education

How the Office of Education assists college students and colleges

Compiled by the Bureau of Higher Education

of the Office of Education

Peter P. Muirhead, Associate Commissioner

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
John W. Gardner, Secretary

Office of Education
Harold Howe II, Commissioner

FOREWORD

A significant partnership between the Government of the United States and institutions of higher education had its birth with the passage of the First Morrill Act of July 2, 1862. The Act provided the donation of public lands to the States and Territories, "which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts".

A century later, the Higher Education Act of 1965, described by President Johnson as "...the noblest act of promise any Congress has ever created", demonstrated the breadth and depth of the relationship between government and higher learning as it had evolved in the last hundred years. It supplemented previous legislation supporting teacher preparation and expansion of physical resources. It provided for improvement of undergraduate instruction and strengthening of library facilities. It reached out to promising but struggling institutions to make possible their sharing of the higher quality faculty, previously unreachable. It offered assistance to those universities and colleges which wish to apply their special competencies and resources to the solution of community problems.

Important provisions of the Act broaden the financial aid available to prospective college students to the end that an opportunity for a college education will be available to all that can benefit from it.

An array of other legislation during recent years had provided Federal support for participation of institutions of higher education in such areas as education of the handicapped, encouragement of budding scientists, research and dissemination of educational information, assistance with problems of desegregation, recognition of special needs in vocational education, and foreign studies at home and abroad.

Thirty of the programs come under the Bureau of Higher Education of the United States Office of Education, with the responsibility for most of the others in the Office's Bureau of Research, Bureau of Adult and Vocational Education, and Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education.

The initiative, the responsibility for specific plans and proposals, rests with the institutions, or in some instances with other non-profit agencies or with the states. In many cases the

colleges and universities furnish funds from other financial sources to match the Government funds. The Federal programs aim to mobilize all available resources to strengthen and improve higher education.

The intent of this booklet is to assist in the realisation of this aim by providing colleges and universities, and their students, with ready information on how they may participate in the many programs now in operation.

December 1966

Peter P. Muirhead
Associate Commissioner
for Higher Education

INTRODUCTION

This publication is designed to answer a question often asked of the Bureau of Higher Education:

"Just what does the Bureau do?"

The answer, broadly put, is simple:

The Bureau of Higher Education administers
two kinds of programs: (1) Support of
colleges and universities and (2) aid to
students. This publication explains the
provisions of numerous programs of each
kind, indicates who is eligible for benefits
under them, how to obtain these benefits,
and where to write for further information
about them.

A number of programs directly related to
higher education are not administered by the
Bureau of Higher Education. All Office of
Education programs are described in this
brochure. Programs of other agencies are
cited where appropriate, with the name and
address of the responsible office.

Federal funds are intended to supplement*
rather than to supplant other funds avail-
able to participating institutions. Conse-
quently, many of the programs carry
stipulations for various amounts of matching
funds. There are limitations on the use of
Federal funds for facilities and materials
designated for theological, recreational, or
commercial use. Labor utilized in the
implementation of many of those programs must
be in accordance with prescribed standards.

SUPPORT OF INSTITUTIONS

Instructional Improvement

The Bureau of Higher Education administers 12 programs in support of colleges and universities to assist them in improving the quality of their instruction:

Support of Developing Institutions

National Teaching Fellowships

Institutional Assistance Grants

Foreign Studies Extension

Special Summer Programs in Language and Area Studies

NDEA Language and Area Centers

Overseas Study by Faculty of NDEA Centers

Visits by Foreign Specialists

Research and Study Abroad

Undergraduate Equipment

Faculty Development in Educational Media

Support of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities

Support of Developing Institutions

(Higher Education Act, Title III)

The Office of Education assists developing colleges and universities which have both the desire and the potential to make a significant contribution to higher education but are limited in their resources, particularly financial. Aid is provided such promising, usually smaller, institutions in the form of support of cooperative agreements among themselves, between the developing institutions and better established institutions, or between

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