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Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
The armed services' efforts to aid and encourage uniformed personnel to participate in the Veterans' Educational Assistance Program (VEAP) are reviewed. VEAP is a pilot program designed to promote and assist the all-volunteer armed forces program in attracting qualified persons to serve by offering educational assistance. Several factors that…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Educational Opportunities, Financial Support, Higher Education
Morris, Marilyn L.; Dye, Charles M. – 1985
The history of the Chapman College Residence Education Center (REC) System is traced from 1958 to 1982. After experimenting near its home campus in Orange, California, the program has grown to 41 centers in California and eight other states, including the Navy's shipboard PACE program. In 1958 the college met the request of students at nearby El…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, College Programs, Educational History, Educational Quality
Armsby, Henry H. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
More than 1.5 million men and women received special training during the period from October 9, 1940 to June 30, 1945 in short, intensive college-level courses designed to prepare for technical and scientific work in war industries. These courses were conducted by colleges and universities under the sponsorship of the U. S. Office of Education.…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Engineering Education, Institutional Autonomy, Engineering
Price, Herbert Hamilton, Jr. – 1968
In 1945, the American Council on Education created the civilian Commission on Implications of Armed Forces Educational Programs to study the armed forces education of World War II and its possible effects on postwar civilian education. Those features of the wartime training and education programs which appeared to be worthy of adaptation and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Armed Forces, Audiovisual Aids, Committees
Dunham, Franklin; Lowdermilk, Ronald R.; Broderick, Gertrude G. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
Educational television has made great strides in the five years which have elapsed since the Federal Communications Commission set aside television channels for the exclusive use of education. Such stations are located in 29 communities of the United States, representing large cities, university centers and, in several instances, serving entire…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Television, Adult Education, Higher Education