tracts, insuring compliance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act and other regulatory legislation. In 1965 approximately 2,800 grants and contracts were processed with an estimated 3,400 in 1966. By 1967 it is estimated that 4,000 grants and contracts will be incurred by the Office, and legal and engineering assistance will be very much in demand for anticipated new facilities construction. Two new positions are requested to accomplish the above and to develop policies and procedures for grants and contracts. The Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education is primarily responsible for administration of programs of the Office directed toward assisting elementary and secondary education. These programs include the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (except research), the grants to States and institutes programs of the National Defense Education Act, handicapped youth programs, assistance to federally affected areas, experienced teacher fellowships, the National Teacher Corps, and teacher exchange and foreign educational trainee programs under transfer funds from the State Department and Agency for International Development. Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 Fiscal 1967 will be the first full year of program operations under the act. The 20,000 participating school districts, utilizing experience gained from fiscal 1966 activities and the increased amount of funds, are expected to produce from 20,000 to 25,000 projects of various size. Development of these new projects with a realization of the first year experience requires processing and assessment of the great volume of first year project information into meaningful analysis and then translation into identification of more effective means of resolving the educational deficiencies in our elementary and secondary schools. This workload includes effective collection, communication and interpretation of the great variety of educational, fiscal, evaluative, and other data evolved from title I State-approved projects; the focusing of local, State, and national attention on the more promising practices of achieving the goals of Title I; and the review and appraisal of State agency evaluative reports on the effectiveness of title I in improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged children. Furthermore, sound management of this landmark legislation requires strengthened field services to bring Federal program activities closer to recipients of the financial assistance and improve communications with State and local officials. The enthusiastic response of local school districts to the title III supplementary educational centers and services program has created a substantial and mounting demand upon staff resources. Over 700 project applications were received in the first of 3 submission periods in fiscal 1966 and total applications are conservatively estimated at 2,500 to 3,000 for the year. Fiscal 1967 operations will involve processing possibly 6,000 project applications resulting in the approval of about 2,000 projects including new proposals and continuation costs for operational and planning projects approved the previous year. Effective and sound use of title III funds necessitates review and assessment, often on an on-site basis, of operating projects both as to their value for subsequent funding and guidance for future project approvals. Institutes In fiscal 1967, the number of institutes under title XI, National Defense Education Act, will increase from 585 to 670, as program funds increase to $40 million. In addition, the institutes in civics, economics, and industrial arts added by the Higher Education Act of 1965 will move to a full level of operation following the "pilot" operation in fiscal 1966. These three institutes, and the arts and the humanities institutes, under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 were only partially staffed the initial year of operation and require different competencies and knowledge from that of existing institute staff to consult with institutions seeking to develop proposals, to review and approve institute proposals, and to make annual reviews of institute operations. National Teachers Corps In fiscal 1967, the National Teachers Corps will move toward a total of 4,600 members. Some Corps members will have completed their preservice training and will begin their teaching and inservice graduate training. For these Corps members the office staff must administer the agreements with local school districts and institutions of higher education for use and compensation of the Corps members; handle relations between individual Corps members and Federal Government; maintain cooperation with the Office of Economic Opportunity; and analyze and evaluate the specific needs of Teachers Corps training. Also, during fiscal year 1967 an additional group of Teacher Corps members will be recruited for preservice training in summer, 1967 and teaching in academic year 1967-68. For these Corps members staff will undertake recruitment, process teaching proposals from school districts and training proposals from institutions of higher education, and negotiate arrangements for the assignment, use and compensation of Corps members. The request includes both departmental and field positions to administer the complexities of this operation. Experienced teacher fellowships In fiscal year 1967 the number of fellowships for experienced teachers, as authorized by title V-C, Higher Education Act of 1965, will make a substantial expansion from the 898 awarded in the previous year to 2,004 new fellowships plus 380 continuing second-year-level fellowships. From 750 to 850 proposals for fellowship programs are expected to be received from about 350 institutions of higher education. While the first year of this program was able to be launched primarily by drawing upon existing staff, such a practice cannot be sustained beyond this initial state and, in addition, absorb the burdens of an expanded fellowship program. The Bureau of Adult and Vocational Education administers various federally supported activities to provide training programs, construction of facilities, and the acquisition of materials. These programs are carried out through grants and contracts to State agencies, institutions of higher education, and organizations. The programs administered by the Bureau include: Vocational and technical training programs; construction of vocational schools: workstudy programs; manpower development and training programs, including area redevelopment programs, in cooperation with the Department of Labor; library services and construction; construction of educational television broadcasting facilities; adult education programs in cooperation with the Office of Economic Opportunity; civil defense education programs; community service and continuing education programs; acquisition of library materials; and training in librarianship. Forty-eight positions are requested in fiscal year 1967 to administer new programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965; to coordinate, in the field, adult basic education programs administered by the Office of Education with programs administered by the Office of Economic Opportunity; and to strengthen the field staff for carrying out proposed further decentralization of functions in connection with other programs of this Bureau. BUREAU OF ADULT AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION New positions requested, fiscal year 1967 DEPARTMENTAL Grade Salary Division of Library Services and Educational Facilities, Library Services Branch: Education specialist.. The Bureau of Higher Education administers the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 which authorizes grants and loans to public and other nonprofit institutions of higher education for construction and rehabilitation of academic and related facilities. Those sections of the Higher Education Act of 1965 which authorize grants for strengthening developing institutions, student assistance in the form of educational opportunity grants and contracts for the encouragement and identification of educational talent, fellowships for teachers, and grants for equipment and minor remodeling for the improvement of undergraduate instruction are also administered by the Bureau, as well as the insured loan programs for both vocational and higher educational students. Administration of the foreign language training and area studies program authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, and programs awarding graduate fellowships and grants and contracts for foreign language training and area centers authorized under the National Defense Education Act also fall within the Bureau's administrative duties. Division of college facilities An increase of 22 positions is requested for the Division of College Facilities to insure efficient administration of the undergraduate construction grants and the construction loans programs authorized by the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, and the equipment grants program for the improvement of undergraduate instruction authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965. Grants for construction of undergraduate academic facilities experienced a total of 516 approved projects in fiscal year 1965, an estimated 1,137 in fiscal year 1966 and an additional 1,137 new project approvals in 1967. An important factor in the evaluation of workload in a new construction program is the time involved from receipt of an application to final completion and acceptance of a project by the owner from the contractor. This time factor results in a pyramiding effect in the continuing action project workload. It is estimated that a project will require in excess of 2 years from initiation to completion. Therefore the project workload estimated in fiscal year 1967 will be cumulative from that experienced in the prior fiscal years and result in a total of about 2,500 projects requiring active attention during fiscal year 1967. Under loans for construction of academic facilities substantially similar factors are involved. A total of 133 projects were approached in fiscal year 1965 and 135 in fiscal year 1966. In fiscal year 1967 with a lending authority of $200 million, a total of about 250 project approvals are estimated. Therefore in fiscal year 1967, it is expected that a total active project workload in excess of 500 projects will be under active surveillance. In this program there is the added workload created by loan or bond closings. The increase in staff requested for financial assistance for improvement of undergraduate instruction, will permit the Division to meet the demands of new application approvals estimated in fiscal year 1967 to be about 315 projects and provide services to the 300 projects approved in fiscal year 1966. Division of foreign studies An increase of eight positions is requested for the Division of Foreign Studies, of which, four will assist in administering the program of foreign language training and area studies authorized by the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (Fulbright-Hays Act), based on a workload staffing ratio of 2 staff to 132 grants. The usual ratio for this type of program is 2 staff to approximately 80 grants, as indicated in the following table: This staff will also administer a substantial number of similar grants authorized under the special foreign currency program. Four positions are also requested to implement a recent agreement between the Department of State and U.S. Office of Education assigning the division responsibility for performing certain recruiting functions for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Division of graduate programs An increase of 21 positions is requested for the Division of Graduate Programs to provide for workload increases in (1) the new teacher fellowship program authorized under the Higher Education Act of 1965; (2) the graduate fellowship program authorized under the National Defense Education Act; and the graduate academic facilities grant program. Four positions are requested for the teacher fellowship program to cope with a program level which will more than double in fiscal year 1967. The Division will be managing a total number of 3,416 fellowships for prospective teachers in 1967 as compared with 1,456 during 1966, the initial year of operation. Nine positions are requested for the NDEA fellowship program to partially provide for a similar increase in workload. Even with these additional positions, |