[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR649.32]

[Page 349-350]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 649--PATRICIA ROBERTS HARRIS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart D--How Does the Secretary Make a Grant for Doctoral Study 
                              Fellowships?
 
Sec. 649.32  How does the Secretary establish priorities?

    (a) The Secretary gives an absolute preference to applicants 
proposing to provide fellowships in the award of which priority is given 
to members of one or more of the groups identified in Sec. 649.3(b)(2).
    (b) The Secretary gives an absolute preference to applicants 
proposing to

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provide fellowships in academic career fields of high national priority 
as established by the Secretary from among one or more of the academic 
areas listed in the appendix to this part or the resulting 
subdisciplinary or inter-disciplinary academic areas.
    (c) The Secretary announces the absolute preferences annually in the 
Federal Register notice inviting applications for new awards under this 
program.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1134d, 1134e)