work-study for community service learning program

work-study for community service learning program Sec. 135F. Part C of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “work-study for community service learning program “Sec. 447. (a) The purpose of tills section is to enable students in eligible institutions who are in need of additional financial support to attend institutions of higher education, with preference given to veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Indochina or Korea after August 5, 1964, to obtain earnings from employment which offers the maximum potential both for effective service to the community and for enhancement of the educational development of such students. “(b) There are authorized to be appropriated $25,000,600 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and $50,000,000 each succeeding fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1975, to carry out this section through local project grants, without regard to the provisions of section 442. “(c) The Commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements with public or private nonprofit agencies under which the Commissioner will make grants to such agencies to pay the compensation of students who are employed by such agencies in jobs providing needed community services and which are of educational value. 86 Stat. 272 “(d) An agreement entered into under subsection (c) above shall— “(1) provide for the part-time employment of college students in projects designed to improve community services or solve particular problems in the community; “(2) provide assurances that preference will be given to veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Indochina or Korea after August 5, 1964, in recruiting students in eligible institutions for jobs under this section, and that the agency, in cooperation with the institution of higher education which the student attends, will make an effort to relate the projects performed by students to their general academic program and to a comprehensive program for college student services to the community; “(3) conform with the provisions of clauses (1)(A), (1)(B) and (1)(C) of section 444(a), and provide for the selection of students who meet the requirements of clauses (3)(A), (3)(B) and (3)(C) of section 444(a); and “(4) include such other provisions as the Commissioner shall deem necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this section, including provisions for oversight by the institution of higher education which the student participating in such a program attends. “(e) For purposes of this section, the term ‘community service’ includes, but is not limited to, work in such fields as environmental quality, health care, education, welfare, public safety, crime prevention and control, transportation, recreation, housing and neighborhood improvement, rural development, conservation, beautification, and other fields of human betterment and community improvement.”.