[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6525-6526]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2544]



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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Learn and Serve America: Higher Ed, Availability of Funds

AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Notice of availability of funds.

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SUMMARY: The Corporation for National Service announces the 
availability of $3.5 million to support new grants for Learn and Serve 
America: Higher Education programs. Individual institutions of higher 
education, consortia of institutions of higher education, and nonprofit 
organizations or public agencies, including states, working in 
partnership with one or more institutions of higher education are 
eligible to apply. These application guidelines are for new applicants 
only. Current Learn and Serve: Higher Education grantees should contact 
their program officers for information about the renewal process. The 
Corporation will also offer a series of conference calls to assit 
programs in preparing their applications.

DATES: All applications must be received by 3:30 p.m., Daylight Savings 
Time, April 12, 1995, to be eligible.

ADDRESSES: Applications should be submitted to The Corporation for 
National Service, Learn and Serve America: Higher Education, 9th Floor, 
Box HE, 1201 New York Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20525. Facsimiles will 
not be accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about the 
application process, you may call or write the Corporation for National 
Service, Learn and Serve America: Higher Education, 1201 New York Ave. 
NW., Washington, DC 20525. Phone: 

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(202) 606-5000 ext. 474; TTD: (202) 565-2799.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Learn and Serve America: Higher Education 
supports efforts to make service an integral part of the education and 
life experiences of students in the nation's colleges and universities. 
Through this grant program, the Corporation supports a diversity of 
service-learning initiatives that involve a wide array of students, 
communities, and institutions of higher education. The Corporation 
expects every applicant to articulate program objectives in each of the 
following three impact areas:
    1. Community Impact--Engaging students in meeting the educational, 
public safety, human, and environmental needs of communities.
    2. Participant Impact--Enhancing students' academic learning, their 
sense of social responsibility, and their civic skills through service-
learning.
    3. Institutional Impact--Increasing the number, quality, and 
sustainability of opportunities for students to serve by strengthening 
infrastructure and building capacity within and across the nation's 
institutions of higher education. Approximately $3.5 million to support 
new grants may be awarded to individual institutions of higher 
education (as defined in the Higher Education Act of 1965), consortia 
of institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations or 
public agencies, including states, working in partnership with one or 
more institutions of higher education are eligible to apply.

Application Assistance

    The Corporation will provide application assistance via a series of 
conference calls during February and March. During these calls, 
Corporation staff will answer questions related to the application 
guidelines. These calls will not serve as an opportunity for 
prospective applicants to obtain individual feedback on proposal ideas. 
If you would like to participate in a conference call, please call 
(202) 606-5000 ext. 117. The Corporation staff will assume that 
conference call participants have read the application guidelines 
thoroughly.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq.

    Dated: January 27, 1995.
Terry Russell,
General Counsel, Corporation for National Service.
[FR Doc. 95-2544 Filed 2-1-95; 8:45 am]
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