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actual number of programs to be supported cannot be determined in advance.

The authorization for institute programs also expires with fiscal year 1968. Although a program which extends beyond June 30, 1968, may be designed, proposed, and accepted, support for any period beyond fiscal year 1968 will be conditional on a new authorization and subsequent appropriation, and a new proposal will have to be submitted for it at the appropriate time (see app. A and B).

Administration

These three institute programs, the NDEA institutes for advanced study under title XI and in counseling and guidance under title V-B, and institutes for advanced study in arts and humanities, are administered by the Division of Educational Personnel Training, Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Office of Education, Washington, D.C. 20202. All inquiries should be sent to the division director.

Institutional Eligibility

Any institution of higher education, as defined in the authorizing legislation (see app. A), is eligible to conduct a program for advanced study, provided that it has filed with the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) a completed and signed copy of form HEW 441, "Assurance of Compliance with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Regulation Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (see app. C). Although the U.S. Commissioner of Education may, through grants or contracts, arrange for such programs only with institutions of higher education, local and State educational agencies are encouraged to initiate action with colleges and universities leading to the submission of a proposal where the need is apparent and the improvement of the qualifications of school personnel will result.

Institutional Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the sponsoring institution are described below. Facilities and equipment.-It must provide suitable classroom and office space and equipment (e.g., typewriters, duplicating and dictating machines, files, bookshelves, and blackboards). It must also be able to arrange for and to provide room and board as required for the participants. (N.B. It is highly desirable that they be housed near one another and that they eat together.) The host institution is also responsible for providing special library and laboratory facilities and other materials that are relevant to the program. The institution also must have conveniently available such nonexpendable equipment as is required for formal and informal activities (e.g., tape recorders and

overhead projectors). In no case may funds be made available for the purchase of equipment.

Auxiliary staff.-The sponsoring institution must also provide such auxiliary or regular staff as is required to prepare for and to serve the participants, e.g., faculty to assist in the screening of applicants, librarians, maintenance staff. No funds are available for these and similar obligations which are assumed under indirect costs.

Accounts, records, and reports.-The host institution must maintain accounts and records in such a manner that Federal funds supporting the program may be readily identifiable. Such records must be available for review and audit. The institution must also submit to the Office of Education all such reports, fiscal and programmatic, as are required.

Institutional Support

All grants and contracts will be on a cost-reimbursable basis, subject to audit under the provisions contained in Bureau of the Budget circular A-21. In the case of non-self-contained institutes (see p. 8) with some regular college or university students enrolled fulltime, the amount of the grant will be determined on a cost-sharing basis. Federal funds will be awarded on a percentage basis, the percentage to be determined by the ratio of federally supported participants to the total enrollment.

Participant Eligibility

With certain exceptions (noted in the "Supplementary Guidelines") programs may be designed for elementary and secondary school teachers, specialists, supervisors, and individuals who are preparing for such positions. In some instances programs may be designed for trainers of teachers and others in higher education.

More specifically, programs may be supported for individuals "who are engaged in or preparing to engage in the teaching or supervising or training of teachers" of history, geography, economics, civics, industrial arts, modern foreign languages, reading, English, English for speakers of other languages, and in such subjects as will strengthen the teaching of the humanities and the arts, in elementary (which includes preschool and kindergarten) and secondary schools.

Programs may also be supported for individuals "who are engaged in or preparing to engage in the teaching of disadvantaged youth"; for individuals "who are engaged as, or are preparing to engage as, educational media specialists"; for teachers in secondary schools "in order to give them a broader understanding of international affairs"; and for individuals "who are engaged, or are teachers preparing to engage, in counseling and guidance of students" in elementary or in secondary

schools or in institutions of higher education, including junior colleges and technical institutes (see sec. 505, app. A).

Within the letter and spirit of the law, each program should establish its own criteria for admission and must assume full responsibility for the recruitment and selection of the participants.

Participation in More Than One Institute

Unless otherwise noted, a proposal invariably is for participants who have not previously attended an NDEA institute for advanced study. The purpose of this policy is to allow as many individuals as possible to attend one of these programs and to encourage the participation of those individuals who do not usually attend even though they might profit from them. However, participants who have attended an NDEA institute program may attend a second program in a different discipline (or area) provided they regularly teach the subject matter of the second program. Thus, a social studies teacher who has previously attended a program in geography would be eligible to apply to one in civics or geography or economics, and a teacher of the language arts who had attended a program in English could apply to one in reading.

However, some participants may attend a second program when a special program (see p. 19) is offered only for individuals who have previously attended a certain type of program or who possess equivalent experience and qualifications. And, where a series of two or three full-summer programs, sometimes with planned activity during the intervening academic year, is designed for a group of participants, there is no restriction on the participant's attendance.

There are no restrictions on the number of institutes to which an individual may apply.

Participants' Stipends and Allowances

Participants are eligible, only upon application, to receive a stipend at the rate of $75 per week for the period of attendance, plus an additional stipend at the rate of $15 per week for each dependent. For those attending inservice or part-time programs, stipends will be prorated on the basis of a 5-day week. Participants are exempt from all tuition fees, and no fees may be charged in lieu of tuition. Participants are responsible for the cost of their room and board and, except as noted in the following paragraph, they must always provide their own travel to and from the place of residence. They must furnish their own textbooks as well as other materials required of all participants.

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Under certain conditions, which have not yet been determined, the cost of travel to and from the place of residence may be allowed for secondary school teachers attending an institute program in international affairs if it is conducted outside the United States.

The Nature of the Program

Programs should offer "advanced study" which includes "study in the use of new materials" designed to improve the qualifications of the participants. Advanced study is generally construed to mean that instruction will be at the postbaccalaureate level, but any program of advanced study or graduate instruction submitted by an eligible institution of higher education will be considered. It is not always necessary or possible to distinguish between "advanced study" and "graduate instruction," and without making such a distinction colleges and universities may submit a proposal which offers advanced study but does not necessarily offer graduate credit. Some institutions may omit the granting of credit in order to meet special needs or certain problems, or to assist certain individuals in their profession. Furthermore, in some fields, many participants may not qualify for usual graduate study but may profit from appropriately designed programs of advanced study which do not correspond to conventional graduate patterns.

The Office of Education does not require that a program grant academic credit or that a participant register for it, even if the institution elects to grant it. Hence, it is permissible to propose programs of advanced study which do not offer graduate credit and to admit participants who do not meet the standards of a graduate school.

The major emphasis of any program will be on the subject matter or field with which the program is concerned, and its chief purpose will be to enable individuals to strengthen their qualifications as teachers or specialists. Study in the use of new materials comprises not only new curriculum materials but also new materials related to modern communication including the many educational media (e.g., telelectures, programed instruction). The development of teaching materials per se is not authorized. However, such developmental work may be a related activity, especially when its objective is to demonstrate how participants may prepare such materials.

The Variety of Proposals

An institution of higher education may submit more than one proposal and may conduct more than one program at a time. Two or more institutions may submit a proposal for a joint program which would draw on their combined faculties and facilities; cooperation of this sort may well add to the quality of the program. But, although

such a proposal is permissible, fiscal arrangements could be made with only one of the institutions.

While most programs are designed to prepare personnel to serve at only one educational level-elementary, secondary, or higher education-proposals may be submitted which provide a program for a combination of participants who work at several educational levels. Proposals will be considered for a limited number of programs to serve undergraduates who have committed themselves to a career in elementary or secondary school teaching. Proposals for programs for trainers of teachers will be given preference.

Proposals are encouraged which provide programs for teachers of Indian children or of other ethnic and national groups, or for teachers concerned with migrant children, or for teachers in "special education," that is, for teachers of physically or mentally handicapped or gifted children, or for teachers employed by correctional institutions, or programs serving other purposes at home and abroad. (For information on programs abroad, see app. D.)

Interdisciplinary proposals.-Proposals which interrelate various personnel specialties or subject matter areas are eligible and are encouraged. Examples include a counseling and guidance institute which combines school psychology and counseling, school social work and guidance, counseling and the disadvantaged or the handicapped; a combination of English for speakers of other languages who fall in the category of disadvantaged youth; history combined with a modern foreign language to prepare teachers of history through the foreign tongue; or a combination of arts and humanities including jurisprudence, philosophy, music, and art for high school teachers.

The Initiation of Proposals

A national competition is conducted to select the programs which will be supported. Proposals in each of the 14 areas are read, evaluated, and rated by panels of consultants from outside the Office of Education. While the principal concern is the quality of the proposed program, other factors are also considered. The submission of proposals by interested colleges and universities, however, does not restrict the initiative of the Commissioner of Education to arrange for programs which he deems necessary in order to serve the national interest. If requested, the Office of Education may, within the limits of its staff and time, offer suggestions on how an institution might make a contribution to an area or subject in which it plans to submit a proposal. The Office of Education, however, may also take the initiative in approaching institutions of higher education.

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