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‘Accepting the competitive challenge’: The ideological and legislative origins of the student loan industry in the U.S., 1958-1973

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This thesis examines the ideological and legislative origins of the student loan industry and their relationship with the emergence of neoliberal modes of governance in the U.S., between 1958 and 1973. Specifically, it explores how the presidential administration of Lyndon B. Johnson sought to create the country’s first universal, federal program of student loans via the Higher Education Act of 1965 and how a non-profit student loan guaranty agency, United Student Aid Funds (USAF), in conjun...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SOGE
Oxford college:
Brasenose College
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Author

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University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
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Supervisor
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Role:
Supervisor


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Joint Brasenose College - Clarendon Fund Scholarship


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Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford

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