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42 U.S.C. § 1885b — Participation in science and engineering of minorities and persons with disabilities
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**(a)** The Foundation is authorized (1) to undertake or support a comprehensive science and engineering education program to increase the participation of minorities in science and engineering, and (2) to support activities to initiate research at minority institutions.
**(b)** The Foundation is authorized to undertake or support programs and activities to encourage the participation of persons with disabilities in the science and engineering professions.
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**(a)** The Foundation is authorized (1) to undertake or support a comprehensive science and engineering education program to increase the participation of minorities in science and engineering, and (2) to support activities to initiate research at minority institutions.
**(b)** The Foundation is authorized to undertake or support programs and activities to encourage the participation of persons with disabilities in the science and engineering professions.
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**(a) Establishment; purposes** There is established within the Foundation a Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (hereinafter referred to as the “Committee”). The Committee shall provide advice to the Foundation concerning (1) the implementation of the provisions of sections 1885 to 1885d of this title and (2) other policies and activities of the Foundation to encourage full participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in scientific, engineering, and professional fields.
**(b) Membership; Chairperson; term of members** Each member of the Committee shall be appointed by the Director. In addition, the Chairman of the National Science Board may designate a member of the Board as a member of the Committee. Members of the Committee shall be appointed to serve for a three-year term, and may be reappointed to serve one additional term of three years.
**(c) Responsibilities of Committee** The Committee shall be responsible for reviewing and evaluating all Foundation matters relating to opportunities for the participation in, and the advancement of, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in education, training, and science and engineering research programs.
**(d) Standing or ad hoc subcommittees** The Committee may organize such standing or ad hoc subcommittees as the Committee finds appropriate.
**(e) Biennial report** Every 2 years, the Committee shall prepare and submit to the Director a report on its activities during the previous 2 years and proposed activities for the next 2 years. The Director shall submit to Congress the report, unaltered, together with such comments as the Director considers appropriate, including—
(1) review data on the participation in Foundation activities of institutions serving populations
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**(a) Establishment** The Director shall establish within the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership under [section 278k of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section278k&num=0&edition=prelim) and section 278l of this title a program of competitive awards among participants described in subsection (b) of this section for the purposes described in subsection (c).
**(b) Participants** Participants receiving awards under this section shall be Centers, or a consortium of Centers.
**(c) Purpose, themes, and reimbursement**
(1) **Purpose** — The purpose of the program established under subsection (a) is to add capabilities to the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, including the development of projects to solve new or emerging manufacturing problems as determined by the Director, in consultation with the Director of the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the MEP Advisory Board, other Federal agencies, and small and medium-sized manufacturers.
(2) **Themes** — The Director may identify 1 or more themes for a competition carried out under this section, which may vary from year to year, as the Director considers appropriate after assessing the needs of United States manufacturers and the success of previous competitions.
(3) **Reimbursement** — Centers may be reimbursed for costs incurred by the Centers under this section.
**(d) Applications** Applications for awards under this section shall be submitted in such manner, at such time, and containing such information as the Director shall require in consultation with the MEP Advisory Board.
**(e) Selection**
(1) **Peer review and competitively awarded** — The Director shall ensure that awards under this section are peer reviewed and competitively awar
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**(a) Definitions** The terms used in this section have the meanings given the terms in [section 278k of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section278k&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Establishment** The Director shall establish, subject to the availability of appropriations, as a part of the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership under sections 278k and 278k–1 of this title, a pilot program of expansion awards among participants described in subsection (c) for the purposes described in subsection (e).
**(c) Participants** Participants receiving awards under this section shall be Centers, or a consortium of Centers (as such term is defined in [section 278k of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section278k&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(d) Award amounts** Subject to the availability of appropriations, an award for a recipient under this section shall be in an amount equal to the sum of the following:
(1) Such amount as the Director considers appropriate as a minimum base funding level for each award under this section.
(2) Such additional amount as the Director considers in proportion to the manufacturing density of the region of the recipient.
(3) Such supplemental amounts as the Director considers appropriate.
**(e) Purpose of awards** An award under this section shall be made for one or more of the following purposes:
(1) To provide worker education, training, development, and entrepreneurship training and to connect individuals or business with such services offered in their community, which may include employee ownership and workforce training, including connecting manufacturers with career and technical education entities, institutions of higher education (including c
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**(a) Findings** Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Economic projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that by 2018, there could be 2,400,000 unfilled STEM jobs.
(2) Women represent slightly more than half the United States population, and projections indicate that 54 percent of the population will be a member of a racial or ethnic minority group by 2050.
(3) Despite representing half the population, women comprise only about 30 percent of STEM workers according to a 2015 report by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.
(4) A 2014 National Center for Education Statistics study found that underrepresented populations leave the STEM fields at higher rates than their counterparts.
(5) The representation of women in STEM drops significantly at the faculty level. Overall, women hold only 25 percent of all tenured and tenure-track positions and 17 percent of full professor positions in STEM fields in our Nation’s universities and 4-year colleges.
(6) Black and Hispanic faculty together hold about 6.5 percent of all tenured and tenure-track positions and 5 percent of full professor positions.
(7) Many of the numbers in the American Indian or Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander categories for different faculty ranks were too small for the Foundation to report publicly without potentially compromising confidential information about the individuals being surveyed.
**(b) Sense of Congress** It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) it is critical to our Nation’s economic leadership and global competitiveness that the United States educate, train, and retain more scientists, engineers, and computer scientists;
(2) there is currently a disconnect between the availability of and growing demand for STEM-skilled w
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 1885b
positions in the Federal Government and in federally
assisted research programs;
‘‘(2) coordinate existing Federal programs designed
to promote the employment of women, minorities,
and the handicapped in such positions;
‘‘(3) suggest cooperative interagency programs for
promoting such employment;
‘‘(4) identify exemplary State, local, or private sec-
tor programs designed to promote such employment;
and
‘‘(5) develop a long-range plan to advance opportu-
nities for women, minorities, and the handicapped in
Federal scientific and technical positions in federally
assisted research, and to coordinate the activities of
participating agencies with the Committee on Equal
Opportunities in Science and Engineering established
by section 36 of the National Science Foundation Au-
thorization and Science and Technology Equal Oppor-
tunities Act [now the National Science Foundation
Authorization and Science and Engineering Equal Op-
portunities Act] (42 U.S.C. 1885c), after the termi-
nation of the task force established by this section.
‘‘(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘partici-
pating agency’ means—
‘‘(1) the National Science Foundation;
‘‘(2) the Department of Health and Human Services;
‘‘(3) the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration;
‘‘(4) the Environmental Protection Agency;
‘‘(5) the Department of Agriculture;
‘‘(6) the Department of Defense;
‘‘(7) the Department of Education;
‘‘(8) the Department of Energy;
‘‘(9) the Department of Commerce; and
‘‘(10) the Department of the Interior.
‘‘(c)(1) The task force on women, minorities, and the
handicapped in science and technology shall be com-
posed of individuals appointed by participating agen-
cies pursuant to this subsectio
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