A bill to provide special advisory and counseling assistance to veterans at institutions of higher education and to authorize, on a trial basis, a special program to aid veterans with academic deficiencies to gain entrance to institutions of higher education.

Summary

Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make grants to any institution of higher education to assist such institution in employing a full-time veterans' advisory and assistant officer to counsel veterans on all matters relating to education and career guidance, including campus orientation career guidance, financial assistance, placement planning, registration processing, and tutorial assistance. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out on a trial basis a special program for veterans who have a high school diploma and who have an academic deficiency which prevents them from qualifying for entrance in any education or training program, under standard entrance criteria, in any institution of higher education. Defines the term "institution of higher education" for purposes of this Act.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 3 January 1973

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