The Higher Education Act (HEA)

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The paper discusses how the HEA is particularly significant in terms of funding for higher education. The paper explains that it provided higher education to middle and lower income students. The paper examines how it greatly impacted the effort to empower and educate minority groups in the United States. The paper relates that for the first time, the general public received the opportunity to improve themselves through further education.

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"The Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 was signed into law on November 8 of that year. Before this time, higher education was a luxury that could be afforded only by the rich and the privileged, hence mainly by the white upper-class population of the United States. President Johnson understood the need to provide lower and middle income families with the opportunity for higher education as well. This would not only serve an empowerment function for the beneficiaries of the Act, but would also be beneficial for the manpower and employment sectors of the country as a whole. By providing higher education to middle and lower income students, the country can make use of otherwise latent and lost talents in order to uplift both the community and the country itself. As such, the Act was particularly important for financing higher education since the 1940s."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cervantes, A., Creusere, Marlena, McMillion, R., McQueen, C., Short, M., Steiner, M. and Webster, J. (2005, Nov.). "Opening the Doors to Higher Education: Perspectives on the Higher Education Act 40 Years Later." TG Research and Analytical Services. http://www.tgslc.org/pdf/HEA_History.pdf.
• Graham, Patricia Albjerg. (2006, January). "Higher Education in America". Oxford University Press Blog. http://blog.oup.com/oupblog/2006/01/higher_educatio.html
• McCants, J. (2003, Feb 2). "The Early History of the Higher Education Act of 1965". http://www.cnm.edu/depts/trio/downloads/History_Higher_Education_Act_06-05-06.pdf.

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