A high percentage of students attending college in the United States today are given some form of financial aid. But this wasn’t always an option. Professor Deondra Rose of Duke University’s Sanford School of Public policy discusses the history of higher education policy and how lawmakers have used programs like the National Defense Education Act of 1958, the Higher Education Act of 1965, and Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments to expand access to equal opportunity.

This video is a part of Duke's series Extra Credit: Life's Curiosities Explained

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Deondra Rose is an Assistant Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy with secondary appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Department of History. Her research focuses on the feedback effects of landmark social policies on the American political landscape. In addition to U.S. public/social policy, Rose's research and teaching interests include #highereducation policy, American political development (APD), political behavior, identity politics (e.g., gender, race, and socioeconomic status), and inequality.

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