34 CFR § 637.1 - What is the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP)?

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title: "34 CFR § 637.1 - What is the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP)?"
title_number: 34
title_name: "Education"
section_number: "637.1"
section_name: "What is the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP)?"
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION"
part_number: "637"
part_name: "MINORITY SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM"
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authority: "20 U.S.C. 1067-1067c, 1067g-1067k, 1068, 1068b, unless otherwise noted."
regulatory_source: "46 FR 51204, Oct. 16, 1981, unless otherwise noted."
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# 637.1 What is the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP)?

The Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP) is designed to effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions, and to increase the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into scientific and technological careers.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1067-1067c, 1067g-1067k, 1068, and 1068b, unless otherwise noted)

[65 FR 7674, Feb. 15, 2000]