PUBLIC LAW 96-374—OCT. 3, 1980
94 STAT. 1483
"(3) Whenever the Secretary determines that an institution of higher education is unable to use all of the amounts available to it under this part, the Secretary shall, on such dates during each fiscal year as the Secretary may fix, reallot such amounts not needed to institutions which can use the grants authorized by this part. "(c) Any eligible institution of higher education offering a program of post-baccalaureate study leading to a graduate or professional degree may apply for grants under this part. Each such institution may make an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing or accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require. "(d) In making grants to institutions of higher education, the Secretary shall— "(1) take into account present and projected needs for highly trained individuals in all areas of education beyond high school; "(2) take into account present and projected needs for highly trained individuals in other than academic career fields of high national priority; and "(3) consider the need to prepare a larger number of individuals from minority groups, especially from among such groups which have been traditionally underrepresented in colleges and universities, but nothing contained in this paragraph shall be interpreted to require any educational institution to grant preference or disparate treatment to the members of one minority group on account of an imbalance which may exist with respect to the total number or percentage of individuals of such group participating in or receiving the benefits of the program authorized in this section, in comparison with the total number or percentage of individuals of such group in any community. State, section, or other area. "(e) The Secretary shall assure that, in making grants under this Awards. part, awards are made to— "(1) individuals who plan to pursue a career in public service; "(2) individuals who plan to pursue advanced study in domestic mining and mineral and mineral fuel conservation, including oil, gas, coal, oil shale, and uranium; and "(3) individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups, as determined by the Secretary, undertaking graduate or professional study. The Secretary shall assure that the amount expended for categories Fellowships of fellowships described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection for each fiscal year is not less than the amount expended for each category in fiscal year 1979. "(f) From sums required to be expended by the Secretary for grants under subsection (e), the Secretary may (in addition to the awards made to individuals) pay to the institution of higher education at which such person is pursuing his course of study such amounts as the Secretary may determine to be consistent with prevailing practices under comparable federally supported programs, except that such amount charged to a fellowship recipient and collected from such recipient by the institution for tuition and other expenses required by the institution as part of the recipient's instructional program shall be deducted from the payments to the institution under this subsection. "(g) No fellowship shall be awarded under this part for study at a Fellowship restriction. school or department of divinity.
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