[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR608.10]

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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 608--STRENGTHENING HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES 
PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart B--What Kind of Projects Does the Secretary Fund?
 
Sec. 608.10  What activities may be carried out under a grant?


    (a) Allowable activities. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of 
this section, a grantee may carry out the following activities under 
this part--
    (1) Purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment 
for educational purposes, including instructional or research purposes;
    (2) Construction, maintenance, renovation, and improvement in 
classroom, library, laboratory, and other instructional facilities, 
including purchase or rental of telecommunications technology equipment 
or services;
    (3) Support of faculty exchanges, faculty development and faculty 
fellowships to assist these faculty members in attaining advanced 
degrees in their fields of instruction;
    (4) Academic instruction in disciplines in which Black Americans are 
underrepresented;
    (5) Purchase of library books, periodicals, microfilm, and other 
educational materials, including telecommunications program materials;
    (6) Tutoring, counseling, and student service programs designed to 
improve academic success;
    (7) Funds and administrative management, and acquisition of 
equipment for use in strengthening funds management;
    (8) Joint use of facilities, such as laboratories and libraries;
    (9) Establishing or improving a development office to strengthen or 
improve contributions from alumni and the private sector;
    (10) Establishing or enhancing a program of teacher education 
designed to qualify students to teach in a public elementary or 
secondary school in the State that shall include, as part of the 
program, preparation for teacher certification;
    (11) Establishing community outreach programs that will encourage 
elementary and secondary students to develop the academic skills and the 
interest to pursue postsecondary education; and
    (12) Other activities that it proposes in its application that 
contribute to carrying out the purpose of this part and are approved by 
the Secretary as part of the review and acceptance of the application.
    (b) Unallowable activities. A grantee may not carry out the 
following activities under this part--
    (1) Activities that are not included in the grantee's approved 
application;
    (2) Activities described in paragraph (a)(12) of this section that 
are not approved by the Secretary;
    (3) Activities that are inconsistent with any State plan of higher 
education that is applicable to the institution;
    (4) Activities that are inconsistent with a State plan for 
desegregation of higher education that is applicable to the institution;
    (5) Activities or services that relate to sectarian instruction or 
religious worship; and
    (6) Activities provided by a school or department of divinity. For 
the purpose of this section, a ``school or department of divinity'' 
means an institution, or a department of an institution, whose program 
is specifically for the education of students to prepare them to become 
ministers of religion or to enter upon some other religious vocation, or 
to prepare them to teach theological subjects.
    (c) No award under this part may be used for telecommunications 
technology equipment, facilities or services, if such equipment, 
facilities or services are available pursuant to section 396(k) of the 
Communications Act of 1934.
    (d) Endowment funds. If a grantee uses part of its grant funds to 
establish or increase an endowment fund, it is subject to the provisions 
of Secs. 628.3, 628.6, 628.10 and 628.41 through 628.47 of this chapter 
with regard to the use of those funds, except--

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    (1) The definition of the term ``endowment fund income'' in 
Sec. 628.6 of this chapter does not apply. For the purposes of this 
paragraph (d), ``endowment fund income'' means an amount equal to the 
total value of the fund, including fund appreciation and retained 
interest and dividends, minus the endowment fund corpus;
    (2) Instead of the requirement in Sec. 628.10(a) of this chapter, 
the grantee institution must match each dollar of Federal grant funds 
used to establish or increase an endowment fund with one dollar of non-
Federal funds; and
    (3) Instead of the requirements in Sec. 628.41(a)(3) through (a)(5) 
and the introductory text in Sec. 628.41(b) and Sec. 628.41(b)(2) and 
(b)(3) of this chapter, if a grantee institution decides to use any of 
its grant funds for endowment purposes, it must match those grant funds 
immediately with non-Federal funds when it places those funds into its 
endowment fund.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1062, 1063a, and 1069c)

[58 FR 38713, July 20, 1993, as amended at 65 FR 79311, Dec. 19, 2000]