grants for cooperative agreement’s to strengthen developing institutions

grants for cooperative agreement’s to strengthen developing institutions Sec. 304. (a) The Commissioner is authorized to make grants to developing institutions and other colleges and universities to pay part of the cost of planning, developing, and carrying out cooperative arrangements which show promise as effective measures for strengthening the academic programs and the administration of developing institutions. Such cooperative arrangements may be between developing institutions, between developing institutions and other colleges and universities, and between developing institutions and organizations, agencies, and business entities. Grants under this section may be used for projects and activities such as— (1) exchange of faculty or students, including arrangements for bringing visiting scholars to developing institutions; (2) faculty and administration improvement programs utilizing training, education (including fellowships leading to advanced degrees), internships, research participation, and other means; (3) introduction of new curriculums and curricular materials: (4) development, and operation of cooperative education programs involving alternate periods of academic study and business or public employment; 79 Stat. 1231 (5) joint use of facilities such as libraries or laboratories, ling necessary books, materials, and equipment; and (6) other arrangements which offer promise of strengthening the academic programs and the administration of developing institutions. (b) A grant may be made under this section only upon application to the Commissioner at such time or times and containing such information as he deems necessary. The Commissioner shall not approve an application unless it— (1) sets forth a program for carrying out one or more projects or activities which meet the requirements of subsection (a) and provides for such methods of administration as are necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the program; (2) sets forth policies and procedures which assure that Federal funds made available under this section for any fiscal year will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practical, increase the level of funds that would, in the absence of such Federal funds, be made available for purposes which meet the requirements of subsection (a), and in no case supplant such funds; (3) provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement, of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this section; and (4) provides for making such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the (Commissioner may require to carry out his functions under this title, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Commissioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports. (c) The Commissioner shall, after consultation with the Council, establish criteria as to eligible expenditures for which grants made under this section may be used, which criteria shall be so designed as to prevent the use of such grants for expenditures not necessary to the achievement of the purposes of this title.