[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 34CFR637.4]



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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

 CHAPTER VI--OFFICE OF POSTSECONDARY 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 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]