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Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report of the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education.

July 13, 1973

To the Congress of the United States:

I herewith transmit the Seventh Annual Report of the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education. The Council is authorized by Public Law 89-329.

The Council's study covers the impact of Federal continuing education, extension and community service programs. I especially commend its analysis of the problems and shortcomings which have resulted from too many fragmented programs operating under various narrow legislative authorities. This study lends further support to a better approach to higher education which would permit academic communities to pursue excellence and reform in the fields they choose and by the means they choose.

The new Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education provides a way to support development of effective programs in continuing education, extension, and community service. Because of the wide range of support possible under the Fund's broad mandate, I shall continue to recommend the termination of other less flexible programs.

RICHARD NIXON

The White House,

July 12, 1973.

Note: The message, dated July 12, 1973, was sent to the Congress on July 13.

The report is entitled "A Measure of Success: Federal Support for Continuing Education--7th Annual Report and Recommendations of the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education." (Government Printing Office, 98 pp.).

Richard Nixon, Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report of the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/255656

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