Minutes, 1966-1980.

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Minutes, 1966-1980.

The Board of Higher Education was established in 1965 to guide and coordinate the growth of public higher education in Massachusetts (St 1965, c 572). Its responsibilities included coordinating services common to all segments of public higher education, reviewing budgets and capital outlay plans of individual institutions, making annual budget recommendations for public higher education to the governor and the General Court, approving new degree programs at public institutions, and chartering private institutions. Minutes are the official record of the board's deliberations and investigations.

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The Board of Higher Education was established in Massachusetts by St 1965, c 572, "An Act to improve and extend educational facilities in the Commonwealth." The board was placed within but not subject to the control of the Department of Education, replacing the Board of Collegiate Authority. The legislation established for the first time a "system" of higher education and created a Board of Higher Education to guide and coordinate the growth and programs of its diversified instituti...