College Access: Is Government Part of the Solution, Or Part of the Problem? : Hearing Before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, April 19, 2005 |
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Page 15 - In a very few moments, I will put my signature on the Higher Education Act of 1965. The President's signature upon this legislation passed by this Congress will swing open a new door for the young people of America. For them, and for this entire land of ours, it is the most important door that will ever open — the door to education.
Page 15 - Some of that vision has been supplied to this student body that has gone from 1,300 to 5,500. So, when we leave here this morning, I want you to go back and say to your children and to your grandchildren, and those who come after you and follow you — tell them that we have made a promise to them. Tell them that the truth is here for them to seek. And tell them that we have opened the road and we have pulled the gates down and the way is open, and we expect them to travel it.
Page 18 - PART A — EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED SEC. 401. (a) It is the purpose of this part to provide, through institutions of higher education, educational opportunity grants to assist in making available the benefits of higher education to qualified high school graduates of exceptional financial need, who for lack of financial means of their own or of their families would be unable to obtain such benefits without such aid.
Page 1 - Mortimer is a professor of higher education, and director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University.
Page 11 - Center for the Study of Higher Education The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania College and University Personnel Association One Dupont Circle, NW Washington, DC 20036 Commerce Clearing House, Inc.
Page 19 - I would be happy to take any questions you may have. Chairman BOEHNER.
Page 27 - Thank you. I want to thank both of you for being here. I think this is a much needed discussion, and it's something that's concerned me for years.
Page 16 - In the last reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, in 1998, Congress required the Department of Education to conduct a study to determine the reasons behind the rising cost of college. That study, which has been widely recognized as the most thorough and complete research on the issue, was issued by former Secretary of Education Rod Paige in December of 2001.