3.0.0 1857 2023-01-11T20:41:24Z 2023-01-11T20:41:24Z Senate S S 2007-07-23 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-07-23T23:15:43Z 2007-07-23 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2007-07-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000154 Sen. Warner, John [R-VA] JOHN WARNER R VA WILLIAM N Education Alaska Black colleges Conferences Economics and Public Finance Education of the disadvantaged Educational technology Elementary and secondary education Engineering Federal aid to education Hawaiians Higher education Hispanic Americans Indian education Indigenous peoples Infrastructure Mathematics Minorities Minority education Paraprofessional school personnel Preschool education Science, Technology, Communications Scientific education Teacher education Wireless communication Education 00 2007-07-23 Introduced in Senate 2007-10-23T16:59:07Z Minority Serving Institutions for Advanced Technology and Education Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible institutions for specified activities, including: (1) acquiring equipment, instrumentation, networking capability, hardware and software, digital network technology, wireless technology, and infrastructure; (2) developing and providing educational services, including faculty development, related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; (3) providing technology-related training for teachers, library and media specialists, early childhood educators, and teacher aides; and (4) forming technology-related consortia or collaborative projects.

Defines "eligible institution" as a historically Black college or university, a Hispanic-serving institution, a Tribal College or University, an Alaska Native-serving institution, a Native Hawaiian-serving institution, or an institution with a substantial number of minority, low-income students who received a federal Pell grant for the previous academic year.

Requires the Secretary to convene an annual meeting of grant recipients to foster collaboration and capacity-building activities and to disseminate information and ideas generated by the meetings.]]>

Minority Serving Institutions for Advanced Technology and Education Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish a digital and wireless network technology program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Minority Serving Institutions for Advanced Technology and Education Act Short Titles as Introduced Minority Serving Institutions for Advanced Technology and Education Act Introduced in Senate 2007-07-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s1857is/xml/BILLS-110s1857is.xml 2007-07-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.