In April 1956, as one result of the White House Conference on Education in 1955, the president created a thirtythree- member committee to study the problems of higher education. The committee examined four problems: the demand for post-high-school education now and in the next fifteen years; the resources to meet this demand; the proposals made for modification and improvement; and the appropriate relationships of the federal government to education beyond the high school.
The committee presented an interim report in November 1956 that called attention to the need for (1) state-by-state surveys of future enrollments, necessary.....
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