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Higher Education Act of 1965

Act of the Congress of the United States which was supposed to strengthen the resources of colleges and universities, and to provide financial aid to students

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Feb 3, 2026

How did Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs affect Black voter loyalty in the 1960s?

’s centerpiece civil-rights laws and materially expanded Black political power in the 1960s by removing legal barriers to registration and by delivering visible government resources, and those changes...

Nov 25, 2025

What criteria does the U.S. Department of Education use to add new professional degrees to accredited lists?

The U.S. Department of Education does not itself “add professional degrees” to an accredited list; instead it recognizes accrediting agencies as “reliable authorities” that set standards and accredit ...

Nov 21, 2025

When and why were professional degree classification rules last revised?

The most recent, substantive revisions to what counts as a “professional” or “professional student” classification in federal higher-education rules took place during Department of Education negotiate...

Nov 20, 2025

How do the new professional degree classifications differ from the previous system?

The Education Department’s negotiated-rulemaking draft narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” cutting the universe from roughly 2,000 programs to under 600 and formally rec...

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