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GI Bill
Changes on higher education institutions and so forth..
Created by
Brenna Amen
⟶ Updated 28 Jan 2018 ⟶
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Events
1/5 of the 100,000 blacks who had applied for benefits were registered
88,000 veterans had applied and been accepted
Women Enrollments in Business and Engineering Decline Dramatically
" As Paula Fass found. racial minorities made more gains in literacy and access to educational programs in the military than they did in public schooling during this era... witout racial integration"
Periods
Doubling in college enrollments
Event progress
Percent of Black Veterans with a College Education
Percent of Black Veterans with a College Education
Percent of White Veterans with a College Education
Projected percent of those who would take advantage of GI benefits.
"Percent of of the 14 million eligible veterans had opted to enroll in postsecondary education"
Undergraduate Women Enrollment, 1940
Undergraduate Women Enrollment, 1950
Undergraduate Women Enrollment, 1970
Grouping
GI Bill Federal Laws and Actions
Events
Servicemen Readjustment Act of 1944 is signed by President Roosevelt (GI Bill)
President's Comission on Higher Education was formed by Harry Truman
Making Public of "The Report on the Commission of Higher Education" http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12802 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001117586