PROGRAM TITLE STRENGTHENING DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONS NATURE AND This program supports colleges and universities that wish to, and can, contribute to the nation's resources. The program supports developing colleges in strengthening their academic, administrative, and student services programs so that they may participate adequately in the higher education community. Support is provided in the form of grants for cooperative arrangements and for National Teaching Fellowships. Cooperative arrangements may be made among developing institutions, between developing institutions and business and industrial organizations. National Teaching Fellowships are awarded to outstanding graduate students and junior faculty members of colleges. and universities to teach at developing institutions. To qualify for assistance, the institution must be accredited or be certified by its regional accrediting agency as making satisfactory progress toward accreditation. It may not include programs designed to prepare students to become ministers or teachers of theology. The institution must have offered a Bachelor's degree for the five preceding academic years. A two-year institution must have offered, for a like period of time, a program acceptable for full credit toward a Bachelor's degree, or a two-year program in engineering, mathematics, or the physical or biological sciences designed to prepare the student to work as a technician at a semi-professional level in engineering, scientific, or other technological fields. Developing Institutions Branch Division of College Support Bureau of Higher Education Washington, D. C. 20202 Program Announcement and Regulations AUTHORIZING Higher Education Act of 1965; P.L. 89-329; Title III ADMINISTERING U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 358 STRENGTHENING INSTRUCTION IN CRITICAL SUBJECTS This program provides matching grants to states, and loans to The funds are private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools. for laboratory and other special equipment and materials, and for minor remodeling of laboratories and classrooms to strengthen instruction in nine critically important subject areas: science, mathematics, modern foreign languages, English, reading, history, geography, civics, and economics. Matching grants are also available to states for expansion and improvement of state supervisory and related services in the critical subject areas and for the administration of the state plan. Local public educational agencies are eligible to participate in the matching grant program and should apply to their state educational agency. Private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools are eligible for loans and should apply directly to the U. S. Office of Education. NDEA Title III Guidelines, November 1965 Regulations, January 1965 Improvement of Instruction through NDEA Title III, OE-20080 Many other publications are also available. National Defense Education Act, Title III; 72 STAT 1588 as amended; 20 USC 441-444, for grant program; 20 USC 445, for loan program. PROGRAM TITLE NATURE AND WHO CAN STRENGTHENING INSTRUCTION IN THE HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS This program provides matching grants to states, and loans to private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools for special equipment and materials and for minor remodeling of laboratory and other space to strengthen instruction in the humanities and the arts. Local public educational agencies are eligible to participate in the grant program and should apply to the state educational agency. Private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools are eligible for loans and should apply directly to the U. S. Office of Education. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT PRINTED Director, Division of Plans and Supplementary Centers or: State departments of education Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education U. S. Office of Education Washington, D. C. 20202 Guidelines: Financial Assistance for Strengthening Instruction in the Arts and Humanities AVAILABLE AUTHORIZING National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, DMINISTERING U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 360 PROGRAM TITLE NATURE AND WHO CAN FOR INFORMATION CONTACT PRINTED INFORMATION AVAILABLE AUTHORIZING STRENGTHENING STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION This program provides funds to state educational agencies for such activities as statewide educational planning, data collection and dissemination, and improving the quality of teacher training. No matching funds are required. States receive $100,000 each plus a portion of the available appropriated balance based upon relative numbers of public school pupils. Only state education agencies are eligible. Director, Division of State Agency Cooperation U. S. Office of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, S. W. Guidelines for Title V Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; P.L. 89-10, Title V, P.L. 89-750; 20 USC 861. ADMINISTERING PROGRAM TITLE NATURE AND WHO CAN SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATIONAL CENTERS AND SERVICES This program provides grants to local educational agencies for innovative and exemplary educational programs and for supplementary educational centers. The program has four objectives: (1) to stimulate and assist in providing needed educational services, (2) to develop and establish exemplary elementary and secondary school programs, (3) to translate educational research into actual classroom practice, and (4) to foster innovative solutions to educational problems. Local public educational agencies are eligible to submit proposals for grants to the U. S. Office of Education. Schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of Defense are also eligible to apply through these agencies. Director, Division of Plans and Supplementary Centers, U. S. Office of Education U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Washington, D. C. 20202 Title III guidelines, Manual for Project Applicants, OE-20084. AUTHORIZING Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title III; P.L. 89-10; Title II as amended by P.L. 89-750; 79 STAT 39; 20 USC 841-848, 881885. 'STERING U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 362 |