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Building a Pipeline to College: A Study of the Rockefeller-Funded

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  • Title: Building a Pipeline to College: A Study of the Rockefeller-Funded "A Better Chance" Program, 1963-1969 (ARTICLE 10) (Essay)
  • Author : American Education History Journal
  • Release Date : January 01, 2009
  • Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 240 KB

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In the post-World War II era, efforts to improve the accessibility and quality of higher education rose to prominence in US educational debates and policymaking. In retrospect, a confluence of factors helped to forge this growing social consensus about the need to create educational opportunity and to diversify the nation's colleges and universities. Notably among these factors were Cold War efforts to bolster national security, the nascent Civil Rights movement's urgent call for social justice, and a deepening recognition of the benefits of higher education participation in terms of economic well-being and social mobility. As historians have begun recently to document, the pressing challenges of the postwar milieu compelled the federal government, which generally had regarded education as an issue for the states, to direct considerable intellectual and financial resources to broadening access. This effort by US policymakers to use education as a fulcrum of change was seen, notably, in the Truman Commission Report of 1947, the GI Bill of 1944, the National Defense Education Act of 1958, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the Higher Education Act of 1965. As crucial as these high-profile federal initiatives were to the postwar expansion of higher education and efforts to promote equality of educational opportunity, the story of federal intervention provides only a partial view of the push toward broadening educational access. A number of experiments and reforms designed to redress historical inequities and improve educational access were also taking place locally. These were often funded by individual colleges or by the private sector--donors, corporations, or foundations. These nonprofit efforts, though certainly not without limitations and flaws, provided an important testing ground for reform ideas and often served as models or even partners for later government-funded national programs (e.g. Upward Bound). Shaped by the ideology that fueled the early Cold War era's search for "talent," by efforts to counter race-related anti-American propaganda abroad (Dudziak 2002), and by the social justice ethos of the War on Poverty, such privately-funded efforts were not only at the forefront of the 1960s wave of compensatory programs, but were also part of a deeply rooted tradition of educational philanthropy. More specifically, in focusing largely on African American students, they in fact represented a more recent chapter in a complex and controversial history of philanthropic giving to the education of Blacks in the US.


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