Wolanin, Thomas R.2018-05-072018-05-072003-03-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83115The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), like many other federal laws, is not permanent. The current authorization of the HEA will end, and the HEA will expire, on September 30, 2004. This impending expiration requires that the 108th Congress consider extending, or “reauthorizing,” the HEA in 2003–04. This would be the eighth HEA reauthorization; previous reauthorizations occurred in 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 1998. Each reauthorization offers Congress, the Department of Education (ED), and the higher education community an opportunity to reexamine the purposes of the Act and the programs that serve those purposes. In this context, this report presents relevant policy research, historical perspective, and an agenda of major issues involved in the complex process of reauthorizing the Higher Education Act.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalHigher Education Acthigher education policybarriers to school enrollmentReporthttp://www.ihep.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/pubs/reauthorizinghea.pdf