[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: 34CFR637.4]

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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 637--MINORITY SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 637.4  What definitions apply to the Minority Science and Engineering 
Improvement Program?

    (a) Definitions in EDGAR. The following terms used in this part are 
defined in 34 CFR part 77.

Applicant
Application
Department
EDGAR
Grants
Grantee
Nonprofit
Private
Project
Project period
Secretary

    (b) Definitions that apply to this part:
    Accredited means currently certified by a nationally recognized 
accrediting agency or making satisfactory progress toward achieving 
accreditation.
    Act means the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.
    Minority means American Indian, Alaskan Native, black (not of 
Hispanic origin), Hispanic (including persons of

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Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Central or South American origin), 
Pacific Islander or other ethnic group underrepresented in science and 
engineering.
    Minority institution means an accredited college or university whose 
enrollment of a single minority group or a combination of minority 
groups as defined in this section exceeds fifty percent of the total 
enrollment. The Secretary verifies this information from the data on 
enrollments (Higher Education General Information Surveys HEGIS XIII) 
furnished by the institution to the Office for Civil Rights, Department 
of Education.
    Science means, for the purposes of this program, the biological, 
engineering, mathematical, physical, behavorial and social sciences, and 
the history and philosophy of science; also included are 
interdisciplinary fields which are comprised of overlapping areas among 
two or more sciences.
    Underrepresented in science and engineering means a minority group 
whose number of scientists and engineers per 10,000 population of that 
group is substantially below the comparable figure for scientists and 
engineers who are white and not of Hispanic origin.


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

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1135b-1135b-3 and 1135d-5)

[46 FR 51204, Oct. 16, 1981, as amended at 52 FR 43544, Nov. 12, 1987; 
65 FR 7675, Feb. 15, 2000]