Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

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DECEMBER MEETING, 1963

Higher Education
Facilities Act
of 1963

Addition was nearing completion and would be occupied soon after the
first of the year.
After several delays for various reasons, the Dearborn Housing
Project was proceeding with the foundation walls and underground
site work.
In continuing, the Vice-President noted that the Fluids Engineering
Building Unit II, the University Hospital Central Laboratories, the
Kresge Medical Research Building Addition, and the Heating Plant
Expansion were proceeding on schedule. He said planning was continuing for the following projects: Institute for Social Research, North
Campus Center, Ambulatory Care Unit, Central Campus Library,
Medical Science Building Unit II, Dental Building, and the Space
Research Building.
The Vice-President in charge of business and finance reported that
on December 10 the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 had been
sent to President Johnson for his signature. The bill authorizes expenditure of 1.195 billion dollars for the first three years of a five-year
program of grants and loans to public and nonprofit private institutions
of higher education for construction of academic facilities.
The act provides for grants for undergraduate academic facilities:
$180,000,000 for 1964 and each of the two succeeding years, for grants
to public and nonprofit private institutions of higher education, including two-year colleges and technical institutes, for construction of
undergraduate academic facilities in the natural or physical sciences,
engineering, mathematics, modern foreign languages, or libraries, provided the construction will (1) result in an urgently needed substantial
expansion of the institution's enrollment capacity or (2) in the case of
a new institution of higher education, result in creating urgently needed
enrollment capacity. The grants will be limited to one-third of the cost
of the construction. The State of Michigan will receive $7,900,000 out
of $180,000,000. A state commission will determine priorities according
to a state plan submitted to the United States Commissioner of
Education.
There will be grants for graduate academic facilities: $25,000,000
in fiscal 1964 and $60,000,000 in each of the two succeeding years, to
improve or assist in the establishment of graduate schools and co-operative graduate centers. Federal funds may not exceed 33 1/3 per cent of
the development cost of the project. No one state may receive more
than 12X2 per cent of the total funds available in any one fiscal year.
The Commissioner of Education will have the authority to approve
applications subject to the advice of an eleven-member advisory committee on graduate education to be established in the Office of Education, at least three of whose members shall be from the field of the
humanities with at least one of the three from a graduate school of
education.
There will be loans for construction of academic facilities in the
amount of $120,000,000 for fiscal 1964 and each of the two succeeding
years. These loans will be to institutions of higher education or to
higher education building agencies for construction of academic facilities. At least 25 per cent of the development cost of the facility will
have to be financed from nonfederal sources. No one state may receive