Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963

(noun)

Legislation signed into U.S. law by President Johnson that authorized a dramatic increase in college aid and provided better college libraries, 10-20 new graduate centers, several new technical institutes, classrooms for several hundred thousand students, and 25-30 new community colleges each year.

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Examples of Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 in the following topics:

  • Higher Education

    • The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, which was signed into law by Johnson a month after he became president, authorized a dramatic increase in college aid within a five-year period and provided better college libraries, 10-20 new graduate centers, several new technical institutes, classrooms for several hundred thousand students, and 25-30 new community colleges each year.
    • This major piece of legislation was followed by the Higher Education Act of 1965, signed into United States law on November 8, 1965 at Texas State University.
    • The Higher Education Act of 1965 was reauthorized in 1968, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, and 2008.
    • This signing plaque rests on campus grounds of Texas State University commemorating the Higher Education Act.
    • Distinguish the key features - as well as the effects - of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Facilities Act, and the Higher Education Act.

  • The Great Society

    • Johnson and Democrats in Congress between 1963-1969.
    • Johnson and Democrats in Congress during his presidency from 1963-1969.
    • The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, designed by Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel, allotted more than $1 billion to help schools purchase materials and start special education programs at schools with high concentrations of low-income children.
    • The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 authorized more federal aid for universities in 5 years than the Land Grant College had in the previous century.
    • This act was followed by the Higher Education Act of 1965, which increased federal money to universities, created scholarships and low-interest loans for students, and established a national Teacher Corps to provide teachers to poverty-stricken areas of the United States.

  • The Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

    • Following Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Lyndon B.
    • One of the chief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in 1965 was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, increasing federal funding to both elementary and secondary schools.
    • The Higher Education Act, signed into law the same year, provided scholarships and low-interest loans for the poor, increased federal funding for colleges and universities, and created a corps of teachers to serve schools in impoverished areas.
    • His Great Society also included passing Kennedy's Civil Rights Act of 1964, the most far-reaching civil rights act yet passed by Congress.
    • These were followed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

  • Legislative Change

    • Board of Education (1954), which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1960 addressed some of the shortcomings of the 1957 act.
    • In the summer of 1963, various parts of the civil rights movement collaborated to run voter education and voter registration drives in Mississippi.
    • Just one year prior, the same Congress had passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibited wage differentials based on sex.
    • Analyze the gains and limitations of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  • The Civil Rights Acts

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
    • It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial discrimination in schools, at the workplace, and by facilities that served the general public.
    • In a civil rights speech on June 11, 1963, President John F.
    • The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting.
    • Johnson, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

  • The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

    • Thousands of Americans headed to Washington on Tuesday August 27, 1963.
    • Board of Education.
    • Students at Moton High School protested the overcrowded conditions and failing facility.
    • Board of Education.
    • The Fair Housing Act of 1968 (known also as the Civil Rights Act of 1968), which banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

  • Conclusion: Post-War America

    • Educational outlays were also greater than in other countries while a higher proportion of young people were graduating from high schools and universities than elsewhere in the world, as hundreds of new colleges and universities opened every year.
    • This bill encouraged home ownership and investment in higher education through the distribution of loans to veterans at low or no interest rates.
    • This led to an increase in stock of skills and yielded higher incomes to families.
    • Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court which explicitly outlawed segregated public education facilities for black and white Americans, ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans.
    • The 1963 March on Washington, photograph by Rowland Scherman for USIA - U.S.

  • Conclusion: WWII and the U.S.

    • By 1960, per capita income was 35% higher than in 1945.
    • The United States was the leading producer of combat aircraft during World War II and had a large surplus of machine tools and manufacturing facilities for airplanes at the end of the war.
    • In 1963, Betty Friedan publisher her book The Feminine Mystique which strongly criticized the role of women during the postwar years and was a best-seller and a major catalyst of the women's liberation movement.
    • Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court which explicitly outlawed segregated public education facilities for black and white Americans, ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans.
    • Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court, which explicitly outlawed segregated public education facilities for black and white Americans.

  • Civil Rights Act

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation.
    • White-only restaurants are an example of the type of discrimination that was outlawed as a result of the Civil Rights Act.
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women.
    • Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11, 1963, in which he asked for legislation "giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments," as well as "greater protection for the right to vote. " Kennedy delivered this speech following a series of protests from the African-American community, the most concurrent being the Birmingham campaign which concluded in May 1963.
    • Prohibited state and municipal governments from denying access to public facilities on grounds of race, color, religion or national origin.

  • The Warren Court

    • Board of Education, Reynolds v.
    • Board of Education, Gideon v.
    • Board of Education
    • Board of Education (1954), Gideon v.
    • Wainwright (1963), Reynolds v.