establishment of advisory council on graduate education; abolition of higher education facilities act advisory committee

establishment of advisory council on graduate education; abolition of higher education facilities act advisory committee Sec. 291. (a) The Higher Education Act of 1965 is amended by adding after the section 1204 (as redesignated by section 251 of this Act) the following new section: “advisory council on graduate education “Sec. 1205. (a) There is hereby established in the Office of Education an Advisory Council on Graduate Education (hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘Council’), consisting of the Commissioner, who shall be Chairman, of one representative each from the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President, the National Science Foundation, and the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, and of members appointed by the Commissioner without regard to the civil service or classification laws. Such appointed members shall be selected from among leading authorities in the field of education, except that at least one of them shall be a graduate student. “(b) The Council shall advise the Commissioner on matters of general policy arising in the administration by the Commissioner of programs relating to graduate education. “(c) Members of the Council who are not in the regular full-time employ of the United States shall, while attending meetings or conferences of the Council or otherwise engaged in the business of the Council, be entitled to receive compensation at a rate fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding the rate specified at the time of such service for grade GS–18 in section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, including traveltime, and while so serving on the business of the Council away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons employed intermittently in the Government service. “(d) The Commissioner is authorized to furnish to the Council such technical assistance, and to make available to it such secretarial, 82 Stat. 1050clerical, and other assistance and such pertinent data available to him, as the Council may require to carry out its functions.” (b) (1) Section 203 of the Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 is repealed. (2) Paragraph (1) of section 202(c) of such Act is amended to read as follows: “(1) The Commissioner shall not approve any application for a giant under this title until he has obtained the advice and recommendations of a panel of specialists who are not employees of the Federal Government and who are competent to evaluate such applications.”