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unusual facts about The Higher Education Act



StudentLoanJustice.org

The website contains information about the student loan industry, including the 1997 Higher Education Act, which it says allowed private lending agencies to impose what it describes as "draconian" punitive measures upon borrowers.


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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.