Post Secondary Education

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Post Secondary Education:

Provide grants for institutional development, off-campus programs, and adults continuing their education development.

Set forth programs for adult learning centers as in the Job Training Bill.

Continue National Advisory Council on continuing education.
 

Libraries:

Grants for college libraries provided on a need based criteria.

Distinguish between full time and part time at 12 credits.

No "special purpose" grants.

Permit institutions that do not qualify as research libraries to provide additional information to demonstrate the national or international significance for scholarly research of the particular collection described in their grant proposal under provisions for strengthening research library resources.

Establish a grant program for supporting college library and technology and cooperation.
 

Institutional Aid:

Strengthen funding for black colleges in relation to the development needs of historically black colleges and universities and other institutions with large concentrations of minority, low-income students.

Institutions are eligible for an increase in financial aid if they meet the following requirements.

1.  20% are Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other Hispanic students, or combination

2. 60% are Native American

3. 5% are Alaskan or Hawaiian Native, Asian American, American Somoan, Micronesian Guamian, or Northern Marianan

Make allotments to institutions based on Pell Grant recipients, graduates, and graduate students in professional schools where blacks are underrepresented.

Award grants to each of listed postgraduate institutions that the Secretary determines to be making a substantial contribution to the legal, medical, dental, veterinary, or other graduate education opportunities for black Americans. 

No grant in excess of $1,200,000 unless the postgraduate institution assures that 50 percent of the cost of the purposes for which the grant is made will be paid from non-Federal sources.

No grant to exceed five years.

No institution may receive more than two grants regarding the following purposes.

(1) any of the authorized uses allotment grants regarding racial promotion
(2) contribution development offices
(3) institutional endowments


Rules for Grants Initiated by Secretary of Education:

Use the most recent and relevant data concerning the number and percentage of students receiving need-based assistance in making eligibility determination.

Number school years based on the latter date of the fiscal year.


Criteria for Waiving Eligibility Requirements:

1. schools extensively subsidized by the state

2. schools charging little or no tuition

3. schools serving a substantial amount of low to middle income students

4. schools increasing opportunities for educationally disadvantaged students, underrepresented minority students, or those low in income

5. schools increasing opportunities for individuals in rural or isolated areas not served by secondary schools

Encourage cooperative arrangements between aid recipients and institutions not receiving such assistance.

Includes benefit to the applicant institutions as a priority criterion in making such grants.

Give priority, under circumstances where funds exceed a specified amount, to applications from eligible institutions with significant groups of students who are minority underrepresented in higher education, or educationally disadvantaged.
 

Student Assistance:

Reimburse college graduates of state universities and public institutions who owe more than $60,000 of debt, but not to exceed the point of owing the amount of.

Limit duration of Pell Grants to five years for four year programs and six years for five year programs.

Allows a specified amount of child care costs in the calculation of eligibility for Pell Grants.

Require students to contribute a specified amount of self-help before being eligible for Pell Grant assistance.

Make part-time students eligible for Pell Grants if they're married or have kids.

Allow learning study grants to eligible students.

Provide special programs for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Carry out a talent searches to recruit and help minority students to pursue graduate studies.

Authorize appropriations for special programs for students whose families are engaged in migrant and seasonal farm work.

No discrimination against first year students borrowing money for loans.

Establish a veterans' education outreach program which would authorize payments to institutions for each veteran enrolled at such institution and receiving veterans' educational assistance.

Provide grants to institutions of higher education to provide special child care services to disadvantaged college students.

Require all students to undergo a needs test for financial aid.

Provide for a three-year deferment of repayment for active duty members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps. Allow repayment deferments for teachers in geographic or subject areas where there are teacher shortages.

Provide for a three year deferment for the care of disabled dependents.

Provide for a six month deferment for parental leave.

Provide for a twelve month deferment for mothers of pre-school children who are re-entering the workforce and earn less than one dollar above minimum wage.

Increase interest rate for borrowers to 10% during the 5th year of repayment.

Require institutions not to certify loans in excess of students' demonstrated needs.

Allow private loans to be used to provide family contribution.

Require prompt payment of interest subsidies to loan holders.

Authorize loan insurance for students attending at least half-time attending status.

Allow for 15 year repayment period of loans.

Provide 3% insurance premium when loans are taken out.

Monthly payments are to be rounded to the nearest five dollars.

Allow guaranty agencies to other guaranty agencies with the consent of the borrower.

Prohibit guaranty agencies from bribing institutions to secure applicants for loans.

Allow for a loan deferment if student is studying at a foreign university.

Allow for guaranty agencies to request payment information from other guaranty agencies on borrowing by students in its state.

Entities may not perform pre-claims assistance and collections activities on the same loan.

Guaranty agencies may collect against the United States to receive reimbursement on defaulted loans.

U.S. must make prompt payment to guaranty agencies on their claims.

Establish a reinsurance fee based on default rates to be paid to the Federal government by guaranty agencies.

Set forth garnishment provisions for delinquent payments.

Allow for deferment of repayment on loans for disability or unemployment.

Increase annual loan limits for Parent Plus Loans.

Require reports to credit bureaus by holders of loans on current balances of loans in good standing and by guaranty agencies on loans in default status.

Accounts to be maintained in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Department of Education may audit guaranty agencies, eligible lenders, secondary markets, and direct lenders.

Sell defaulted loans to collected agencies under correct circumstances.

Limit, suspend, or terminate lenders who engage in fraudulent or misleading advertising.

Include trust companies and stock savings banks, and the Rural Rehabilitation Corporation under the definition of eligible lender.

Report annually to specified congressional committees on the amount of student loan capital provided through tax-exempt financing, its impact on the availability of student credit, and an assessment of the need for additional tax-exempt financing.

Limit Sallie Mae to providing secondary market functions and prohibits it from purchasing or in any way controlling a bank or savings and loan association.

Require Sallie Mae to report to the Congress 30 days prior to implementing any new programs.

Classify independent students as students over the age of 25, students whose parents are deceased, or married students.

Establish a National Student Loan Data System and report its results to the Congress. Sets forth provisions for training persons in financial aid and student support services.

Prohibit students who are in default or who owe any refund under any Federal grant program from receiving any form of Federal student assistance.


Teacher Training Development:

1. Establish Mid-Career Teacher Training Programs.
2. School, College, University Partnerships
3. Professional Development and Leadership Programs
4. Teacher Scholarships and Fellowships
5. Task Forces on Teacher Education
 

International Education Programs:

1. Focus on foreign language aspects of professional and other fields of study.
2. Instruction and research on issues in world affairs.

Establish programs by providing grants to institutions of higher education or combinations of such institutions to pay stipends for individuals undergoing advanced training in approved centers or programs for language, area studies, and international education.

Award on the basis of a national competition, stipends to students beginning their third year of graduate training in a specialty language with multidisciplinary area training.

Require such learning centers to serve as resources to improve the capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively.

Bases institutional eligibility for grants on certain foreign language requirements.

Add intensive summer language institutions on campuses interesting in foreign affairs.

Provide for a program of overseas internships to enable foreign language students to develop their foreign language skills and knowledge of foreign cultures and societies.

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