American Decades

Summary of Major Provisions of the
National Defense Education Act of
1958

Summary

By: Elliot Lee Richardson

Date: 1958

Source: National Defense Education Act. U.S. Statutes at Large 72 (1958), 1580–1605. Summary of the act by the Center for the Studies of Higher Education. Available online at http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe/ndea/ndea.html; website home page: http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/cshe/ndea/index.html (accessed June 5, 2003).

About the Author: Elliot Lee Richardson (1920–1999) earned degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He was the lieutenant governor and attorney general of Massachusetts. Richardson held a number of high-level positions in the federal government, including secretary of health,...