New Version of 150-Year-Old Law Could Ease Student Debt and College Funding Cutbacks

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 09:01 in Mathematics & Economics

Members of a panel today commemorating the 150th anniversary of federal legislation that transformed college education for people in the 19th and 20th centuries said that a 21st century counterpart to the Morrill Act of 1862 could ease the staggering load of student debt and help colleges and universities cope with state funding cut-backs. The panel was held at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society.

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