34 CFR § 637.13 - What are design projects?

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title: "34 CFR § 637.13 - What are design projects?"
title_number: 34
title_name: "Education"
section_number: "637.13"
section_name: "What are design projects?"
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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# 637.13 What are design projects?

(a) Design project grants assist minority institutions that do not have their own appropriate resources or personnel to plan and develop long-range science improvement programs.

(b) Activities that the Secretary may assist under a design project include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) Development of planning, management, and evaluation systems; and

(2) Improvement of institutional research or development offices.

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

[46 FR 51204, Oct. 16, 1981, as amended at 52 FR 43545, Nov. 12, 1987]