5. In 1958, Congress passed another act affecting higher education, based on the constitutional
right to fund the military for defense of the country. It was the National Defense Education
Act and, for the first time, it carefully restrained the officials of the then-Office of Education
from going beyond the “listing” power while using voluntary accrediting bodies work.
“Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency,
officer, or employee of the U.S. to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over
the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational
institution or school system.”