Descriptor
Source
Author
| Burke, Rebecca A. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Legal/Legislative/Regulatory… | 6 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
| Community | 7 |
| Policymakers | 6 |
| Researchers | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
| Higher Education Act 1965 | 2 |
| Stafford Student Loan Program | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. – 1994
Testimony on federal aid to higher education in Africa is recorded in this report of a congressional hearing. Subcommittee chairman Senator Paul Simon opened by describing his hope that more U.S. aid be directed to the relatively new but now deteriorating African institutions of higher education. John Hicks, from the Bureau for Africa at the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Developing Nations, Federal Aid, Foreign Countries
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1993
The Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources met to consider an amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the delivery of college financial aid by moving from guaranteed students loans to direct loans. Under a system of direct loans, students would borrow directly from the Federal Government by applying through their colleges.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Agriculture. – 1984
Testimonies were heard in reference to the administration's annual rural development policy report and H.R. 5024, the Rural Development Reorganization Act of 1984. The bill provides that the Department of Agriculture shall be known as the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, transfers the administration of certain conservation programs…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Agriculture, Farm Management
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Ways and Means. – 1995
The Subcommittee met in the first of a series of hearings on graduate medical education aimed at developing a new Medicare health professional education and teaching hospital payment policy. The hearing examined new policies for training future health professionals, future medical manpower needs, and the financing of teaching hospitals. Current…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Dentistry, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Burke, Rebecca A. – 1984
Concluding that Iowa women are suffering more and in greater numbers than before, this report contains testimony from the 1983 public hearings initiated by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women. Each section contains background information and testimony from women who have had firsthand experience of poverty--such as female…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Criminals, Day Care, Disabilities
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1991
As part of a series of field hearings across the nation on the reauthorization of the Higher Education of 1965, the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education met in Pleasant Hill, California, to hear testimony specifically on access to education for children of lower and middle class families in California. Discussed were the rising cost of higher…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Bound Students, College Students, Community Colleges
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1991
As part of a series of field hearings across the nation on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education met in Great Falls, Montana, to hear testimony specifically on access to education for children of middle class farm families in Montana. In the course of the hearing witnesses touched on…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Bound Students, College Students, Educational Finance
