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20 U.S.C. § 1101b — Authorized activities
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**(a) Types of activities authorized** Grants awarded under this subchapter shall be used by Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education to assist the institutions to plan, develop, undertake, and carry out programs to improve and expand the institutions’ capacity to serve Hispanic students and other low-income students.
**(b) Authorized activities** Grants awarded under this section shall be used for one or more of the following activities:
(1) Purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes, including instructional and research purposes.
(2) Construction, maintenance, renovation, and improvement in classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and other instructional facilities.
(3) Support of faculty exchanges, faculty development, curriculum development, academic instruction, and faculty fellowships to assist in attaining advanced degrees in the fellow’s field of instruction.
(4) Purchase of library books, periodicals, and other educational materials, including telecommunications program material.
(5) Tutoring, counseling, and student service programs designed to improve academic success, including innovative and customized instruction courses (which may include remedial education and English language instruction) designed to help retain students and move the students rapidly into core courses and through program completion.
(6) Articulation agreements and student support programs designed to facilitate the transfer from two-year to four-year institutions.
(7) Funds management, 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 cont
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**(a) Types of activities authorized** Grants awarded under this subchapter shall be used by Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education to assist the institutions to plan, develop, undertake, and carry out programs to improve and expand the institutions’ capacity to serve Hispanic students and other low-income students.
**(b) Authorized activities** Grants awarded under this section shall be used for one or more of the following activities:
(1) Purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes, including instructional and research purposes.
(2) Construction, maintenance, renovation, and improvement in classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and other instructional facilities.
(3) Support of faculty exchanges, faculty development, curriculum development, academic instruction, and faculty fellowships to assist in attaining advanced degrees in the fellow’s field of instruction.
(4) Purchase of library books, periodicals, and other educational materials, including telecommunications program material.
(5) Tutoring, counseling, and student service programs designed to improve academic success, including innovative and customized instruction courses (which may include remedial education and English language instruction) designed to help retain students and move the students rapidly into core courses and through program completion.
(6) Articulation agreements and student support programs designed to facilitate the transfer from two-year to four-year institutions.
(7) Funds management, 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 improving an endowment fund.
(11) Creating or improving facilities for Internet or other distance education technologies, including purchase or rental of telecommunications technology equipment or services.
(12) Establishing or enhancing a program of teacher education designed to qualify students to teach in public elementary schools and secondary schools.
(13) Establishing community outreach programs that will encourage elementary school and secondary school students to develop the academic skills and the interest to pursue postsecondary education.
(14) Expanding the number of Hispanic and other underrepresented graduate and professional students that can be served by the institution by expanding courses and institutional resources.
(15) Providing education, counseling services, or financial information designed to improve the financial literacy and economic literacy of students or the students’ families, especially with regard to student indebtedness and student assistance programs under subchapter IV.
(16) Other activities proposed in the application submitted pursuant to [section 1101c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1101c&num=0&edition=prelim) that—
(A) contribute to carrying out the purposes of this subchapter; and
(B) are approved by the Secretary as part of the review and acceptance of such application.
**(c) Endowment fund limitations**
(1) **Portion of grant** — A Hispanic-serving institution may not use more than 20 percent of the grant funds provided under this subchapter for any fiscal year for establishing or improving an endowment fund.
(2) **Matching required** — A Hispanic-serving institution that uses any portion of the grant funds provided under this subchapter for any fiscal year for establishing or improving an endowment fund shall provide from non-Federal funds an amount equal to or greater than the portion.
(3) **Comparability** — The provisions of part C of subchapter III regarding the establishment or increase of an endowment fund, that the Secretary determines are not inconsistent with this subsection, shall apply to funds used under paragraph (1).
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Grants awarded under this part shall be used for one or more of the following activities:
(1) Purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes, including instructional and research purposes.
(2) Construction, maintenance, renovation, and improvement of classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and other instructional facilities, including purchase or rental of telecommunications technology equipment or services.
(3) Purchase of library books, periodicals, technical and other scientific journals, microfilm, microfiche, and other educational materials, including telecommunications program materials.
(4) Support for low-income postbaccalaureate students including outreach, academic support services, mentoring, scholarships, fellowships, and other financial assistance to permit the enrollment of such students in postbaccalaureate certificate and postbaccalaureate degree granting programs.
(5) Support of faculty exchanges, faculty development, faculty research, curriculum development, and academic instruction.
(6) Creating or improving facilities for Internet or other distance education technologies, including purchase or rental of telecommunications technology equipment or services.
(7) Collaboration with other institutions of higher education to expand postbaccalaureate certificate and postbaccalaureate degree offerings.
(8) Other activities proposed in the application submitted pursuant to [section 1102c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1102c&num=0&edition=prelim) that—
(A) contribute to carrying out the purposes of this part; and
(B) are approved by the Secretary as part of the review and acceptance of such application.
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**(a) Return of subchapter IV funds**
(1) **In general** — If a recipient of assistance under this subchapter withdraws from an institution during a payment period or period of enrollment in which the recipient began attendance, the amount of grant or loan assistance (other than assistance received under part C) to be returned to the subchapter IV programs is calculated according to paragraph (3) and returned in accordance with subsection (b).
(2) **Leave of absence**
(A) *Leave not treated as withdrawal* — In the case of a student who takes 1 or more leaves of absence from an institution for not more than a total of 180 days in any 12-month period, the institution may consider the student as not having withdrawn from the institution during the leave of absence, and not calculate the amount of grant and loan assistance provided under this subchapter that is to be returned in accordance with this section if—
(i) the institution has a formal policy regarding leaves of absence;
(ii) the student followed the institution’s policy in requesting a leave of absence; and
(iii) the institution approved the student’s request in accordance with the institution’s policy.
(B) *Consequences of failure to return* — If a student does not return to the institution at the expiration of an approved leave of absence that meets the requirements of subparagraph (A), the institution shall calculate the amount of grant and loan assistance provided under this subchapter that is to be returned in accordance with this section based on the day the student withdrew (as determined under subsection (c)).
(3) **Calculation of amount of subchapter IV assistance earned**
(A) *In general* — The amount of grant or loan assistance under this subchapter that is earned by the recipi
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**(a) Award period** The Secretary may award a grant to a Hispanic-serving institution under this subchapter for 5 years.
**(b) Planning grants** Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary may award a grant to a Hispanic-serving institution under this subchapter for a period of 1 year for the purpose of preparation of plans and applications for a grant under this subchapter.
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**(a) Eligible institution** An institution of higher education is eligible to receive funds from the amounts made available under this section if such institution is—
(1) a part B institution (as defined in [section 1061 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1061&num=0&edition=prelim));
(2) a Hispanic-serving institution (as defined in [section 1101a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1101a&num=0&edition=prelim));
(3) a Tribal College or University (as defined in [section 1059c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1059c&num=0&edition=prelim));
(4) an Alaska Native-serving institution or a Native Hawaiian-serving institution (as defined in [section 1059d(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1059d/b&num=0&edition=prelim));
(5) a Predominantly Black Institution (as defined in subsection (c));
(6) an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution (as defined in subsection (c)); or
(7) a Native American-serving nontribal institution (as defined in subsection (c)).
**(b) New investment of funds**
(1) **In general**
(A) *Provision of funds* — There shall be available to the Secretary to carry out this section, from funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $255,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter.
(B) *Availability* — Funds made available under subparagraph (A) for a fiscal year shall remain available for the next succeeding fiscal year.
(2) **Allocation and allotment**
(A) *In general* — Of the amounts made available under paragraph (1) for each fiscal year—
(i) $100,000,000 sha
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 1101b
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2009 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 111–39 effective as if enacted
on the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–315 (Aug. 14,
2008), see section 3 of Pub. L. 111–39, set out as a note
under section 1001 of this title.
§ 1101b. Authorized activities
(a) Types of activities authorized
Grants awarded under this subchapter shall be
used by Hispanic-serving institutions of higher
education to assist the institutions to plan, de-
velop, undertake, and carry out programs to im-
prove and expand the institutions’ capacity to
serve Hispanic students and other low-income
students.
(b) Authorized activities
Grants awarded under this section shall be
used for one or more of the following activities:
(1) Purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or
laboratory equipment for educational pur-
poses, including instructional and research
purposes.
(2) Construction, maintenance, renovation,
and improvement in classrooms, libraries, lab-
oratories, and other instructional facilities.
(3) Support of faculty exchanges, faculty de-
velopment, curriculum development, academic
instruction, and faculty fellowships to assist
in attaining advanced degrees in the fellow’s
field of instruction.
(4) Purchase of library books, periodicals,
and other educational materials, including
telecommunications program material.
(5) Tutoring, counseling, and student service
programs designed to improve academic suc-
cess, including innovative and customized in-
struction courses (which may include remedial
education and English language instruction)
designed to help retain students and move the
students rapidly into core courses and through
program completion.
(6) Articulation agreements an
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