The Nation - News from April 14, 1985

Terrel H. Bell, secretary of education in President Reagan’s first term, criticized the Administration’s plan to cut federal aid to college students as an attack on the nation’s private colleges and universities. Writing in the New York Times’ Sunday editions, Bell said the proposed legislation to cut student aid would result in the transfer of thousands of students from private to public institutions. Bell wrote that the plan “flies in the face of arguments advanced by the Reagan Administration that government policy should encourage the private sector to do more so that government can do less.”