SELECTION OF CERTAIN GRANT RECIPIENTS.

SEC. 607. SELECTION OF CERTAIN GRANT RECIPIENTS. Section 607 (20 U.S.C. 1127) is amended—(1) in subsection (a), by striking “evaluates the applications for comprehensive and undergraduate language and area centers and programs.” and inserting “evaluates—“(1) the applications for comprehensive foreign language and area or international studies centers and programs; and“(2) the applications for undergraduate foreign language and area or international studies centers and programs.”; and(2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following: “In keeping with the purposes of this part, the Secretary shall take into account the degree to which activities of centers, programs, and fellowships at institutions of higher education address national needs, and generate information for and disseminate information to the public. The Secretary shall also consider an applicant’s record of placing students into postgraduate employment, education, or training in areas of national need and an applicant’s stated efforts to increase the number of such students that go into such placements.”.