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Sunday, June 22, 2014

The GI Bill Turns Seventy

Seventy years ago today, President  Franklin Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights.  Among other things, this legislation would transform American higher education.  Nearly all the early students of Claremont McKenna College, which started in 1946, were veterans using their benefits.  An infographic:

70th GI Bill Anniversary
Infographic: TIMELINE

70 YEARS OF THE GI BILL 
Veterans' education and training, home loan and vocational benefits

1944
Servicemembers Readjustment Act of 1944