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Alternative Views

Early shows included long-form interviews with Senator Ralph Yarborough, a Texas progressive responsible for legislation like the National Defense Education Act, and former CIA officials like John Stockwell and Philip Agee, who both presented arguments for shuttering the CIA.

Area studies

Other large and important programs followed Ford's—most notably, the National Defense Education Act of 1957, renamed the Higher Education Act in 1965, which allocated funding for some 125 university-based area studies units known as National Resource Center programs at U.S. universities, as well as for Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships for graduate students.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago

Prior to the Center's formation, scholars originally received funding administered by Title VI of the US Department of Defense's National Defense Education Act.

National Defense Education Act

Initially, a small number of institutions (Barnard College, Yale University, Princeton University) refused to accept funding under the student loan program established by the act because of the affidavit requirement.

W. R. Davies

A goal of $15,000 was set, with all funds to be directed to match federal grants for National Defense Student Loans.

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The foundation was created to raise funds for the new National Defense Student Loans Program that provided low-interest loans for promising but needy students.

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