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Title 20 — Education

Part A · Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance

§ 1127. Selection of certain grant recipients

Statutory text

(a)

Competitive grants

The Secretary shall award grants under section 1122 of this title competitively on the basis of criteria that separately, but not less rigorously, evaluates—

(1)

the applications for comprehensive foreign language and area or international studies centers and programs; and

(2)

the applications for undergraduate foreign language and area or international studies centers and programs.

(b)

Selection criteria

The Secretary shall set criteria for grants awarded under section 1122 of this title by which a determination of excellence shall be made to meet the differing objectives of graduate and undergraduate institutions. In keeping with the purposes of this part, the Secretary shall take into account the degree to which activities of centers, programs, and fellowships at institutions of higher education address national needs, and generate information for and disseminate information to the public. The Secretary shall also consider an applicant’s record of placing students into postgraduate employment, education, or training in areas of national need and an applicant’s stated efforts to increase the number of such students that go into such placements.

(c)

Equitable distribution of grants

The Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, award grants under this part (other than section 1122 of this title) in such manner as to achieve an equitable distribution of the grant funds throughout the United States, based on the merit of a proposal as determined pursuant to a peer review process involving broadly representative professionals.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Higher Education Act of 1965

    Pub. L. 89–329 title VI § 607 · 79 Stat. 1219

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1127

    Pub. L. 89–329, title VI, § 607, as added Pub. L. 105–244, title VI, § 601, Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1782

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 89–329, title VI, § 607, as added Pub. L. 105–244, title VI, § 601, Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1782

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 607. administration of state plans (a) The Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any Hearing opportunity. State plan submitted under this part, or any modification thereof, without first affording the State commission submitting the plan reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. (b) Whenever the Commissioner, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State commission administering a State plan approved under this part, finds— (1) that the State plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provisions of section 603, or (2) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with any such provision, the Commissioner shall notify such State commission that the State will not be regarded as eligible to participate in the program under this part until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply.

  2. Higher Education Opportunity Act

    Pub. L. 110–315 § 607(1) · 122 Stat. 3078

    Substituted · 20 U.S.C. § 1127(a)

    Pub. L. 110–315, § 607(1), substituted “evaluates—” and pars. (1) and (2) for “evaluates the applications for comprehensive and undergraduate language and area centers and programs.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–315, § 607(1), substituted “evaluates—” and pars. (1) and (2) for “evaluates the applications for comprehensive and undergraduate language and area centers and programs.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) in subsection (a), by striking “evaluates the applications for comprehensive and undergraduate language and area centers and programs.” and inserting “evaluates— “(1) the applications for comprehensive foreign language and area or international studies centers and programs; and “(2) the applications for undergraduate foreign language and area or international studies centers and programs.” ; and

  3. Higher Education Opportunity Act

    Pub. L. 110–315 § 607(2) · 122 Stat. 3078

    Inserted · 20 U.S.C. § 1127(b)

    Pub. L. 110–315, § 607(2), inserted at end “In keeping with the purposes of this part, the Secretary shall take into account the degree to which activities of centers, programs, and fellowships at institutions of higher education address national needs, and generate information for and disseminate information to the public. The Secretary shall also consider an applicant’s record of placing students into postgraduate employment, education, or training in areas of national need and an applicant’s stated efforts to increase the number of such students that go into such placements.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–315, § 607(2), inserted at end “In keeping with the purposes of this part, the Secretary shall take into account the degree to which activities of centers, programs, and fellowships at institutions of higher education address national needs, and generate information for and disseminate information to the public. The Secretary shall also consider an applicant’s record of placing students into postgraduate employment, education, or training in areas of national need and an applicant’s stated efforts to increase the number of such students that go into such placements.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following: “In keeping with the purposes of this part, the Secretary shall take into account the degree to which activities of centers, programs, and fellowships at institutions of higher education address national needs, and generate information for and disseminate information to the public. The Secretary shall also consider an applicant’s record of placing students into postgraduate employment, education, or training in areas of national need and an applicant’s stated efforts to increase the number of such students that go into such placements.”.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 1127, Pub. L. 89–329, title VI, § 610, formerly § 607, as added Pub. L. 96–374, title VI, § 601(a), , 94 Stat. 1467; renumbered § 610 and amended Pub. L. 99–498, title VI, §§ 605(1), 609, , 100 Stat. 1517, 1519; Pub. L. 102–325, title VI, § 601, , 106 Stat. 728, authorized grants and contracts for American overseas research centers, prior to the general amendment of this part by Pub. L. 105–244.

Another prior section 1127, Pub. L. 89–329, title VI, § 607, , 79 Stat. 1265, provided procedures to be followed in event of disapproval of a State plan under equipment grant program, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 96–374.

A prior section 607 of Pub. L. 89–329 was classified to section 1125a of this title, prior to the general amendment of this part by Pub. L. 105–244.

Amendments

2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–315, § 607(1), substituted “evaluates—” and pars. (1) and (2) for “evaluates the applications for comprehensive and undergraduate language and area centers and programs.”

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–315, § 607(2), inserted at end “In keeping with the purposes of this part, the Secretary shall take into account the degree to which activities of centers, programs, and fellowships at institutions of higher education address national needs, and generate information for and disseminate information to the public. The Secretary shall also consider an applicant’s record of placing students into postgraduate employment, education, or training in areas of national need and an applicant’s stated efforts to increase the number of such students that go into such placements.”

Credits

1998–2008 · 2 acts
  1. 1998Pub. L. 89–329, title VI, § 607, as added Pub. L. 105–244, title VI, § 601, , 112 Stat. 1782
  2. 2008amended Pub. L. 110–315, title VI, § 607, , 122 Stat. 3338.
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(Pub. L. 89–329, title VI, § 607, as added Pub. L. 105–244, title VI, § 601, , 112 Stat. 1782; amended Pub. L. 110–315, title VI, § 607, , 122 Stat. 3338.)

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