[United States Government Manual]
[May 31, 1996]
[Pages 243-251]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
600 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202
Phone, 202-708-5366
SECRETARY OF EDUCATION Richard W. Riley
Chief of Staff Frank S. Holleman
Director, Office of Public Kathryn Kahler
Affairs
Deputy Secretary Madeleine M. Kunin
Under Secretary Marshall S. Smith
Director, Planning and Evaluation Alan Ginsburg
Service
Director, Budget Service Sally Christensen
Director for Management Gary J. Rasmussen
Director, Information Resources Gloria Parker
Group
Director, Office of Hearings and Frank J. Furey
Appeals
Director, Human Resources Group Veronica D. Trietsch
Director, Quality Workplace Group Tony Conques
Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental and Gilberto Mario Moreno
Interagency Affairs
Director, White House Initiatives on Hispanic Alfred Ramirez
Education
Director, Office of Non-Public Education Michelle L. Doyle
Director, Operations Support Staff Norman Hall
Inspector General Thomas R. Bloom
Assistant Inspector General for Dianne Van Riper
Integrity Services
Assistant Inspector General for John P. Higgins, Jr.
Planning, Analysis, and
Management Services
Assistant Inspector General for Steven McNamara
Improvement Services
Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Kay Casstevens
Congressional Affairs
Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Wolanin
Director, Legislation Staff Thomas Wolanin, Acting
Director, Congressional Affairs Scott Fleming
Staff
General Counsel Judith A. Winston
Deputy General Counsel for Felix Baxter
Postsecondary and
Departmental Service
Deputy General Counsel for Steven Y. Winnick
Program Service
Deputy General Counsel for Jamienne S. Studley
Regulations and Legislation
Service
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu
Deputy Assistant Secretary Raymond C. Pierce
Director, Planning, Analysis, and Anne C. Yorke, Acting
Systems Service
Director, Policy, Enforcement, Jeannette Lim
and Program Service
Assistant Secretary for Educational Research Sharon P. Robinson
and Improvement
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Charles E. Hansen
Policy
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Director, Library Programs Robert Klassen
Director, National Library of Blane K. Dessy
Education
Director, Media and Information Cynthia Dorfman
Services
Director, Office of Reform Eve Bither, Acting
Assistance and Dissemination
Director, National Institute on Joseph Conaty, Acting
Student Achievement,
Curriculum, and Assessment
Director, National Institute on Judith Anderson, Acting
the Education of At-Risk
Students
Director, National Institute on Naomi Karp, Acting
Early Childhood Development
and Education
Director, National Institute on Edward Fuentes, Acting
Governance, Finance,
Policymaking, and Management
Director, National Institute on David Boesel, Acting
Postsecondary Education,
Libraries, and Lifelong
Learning
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Judith E. Heumann
Rehabilitative Services
Deputy Assistant Secretary Howard R. Moses
Director, Special Education Thomas Hehir
Programs
Director, National Institute on Katherine D. Seelman
Disability and Rehabilitation
Research
Commissioner, Rehabilitation Fredric K. Schroeder
Services Administration
Director, Office of Bilingual Education and Delia Pompa
Minority Languages Affairs
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Gerald N. Tirozzi
Secondary Education
Director, Compensatory Education Mary Jean LeTendre
Programs
Director, Impact Aid Programs Catherine Schagh
Director, School Improvement Arthur Cole, Acting
Programs
Director, Office of Indian Sandra Spaulding,
Education Acting
Director, Office of Migrant Bayla F. White
Education
Director, Goals 2000 Programs Thomas Fagan
Director, Safe and Drug-Free William Modzeleski
Schools Program
Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Patricia W. McNeil,
Education Acting
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education David A. Longanecker
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Maureen McLaughlin
Policy, Planning, and
Innovation
Director, Fund for the Charles H. Karelis
Improvement of Postsecondary
Education
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elizabeth M. Hicks
Student Financial Assistance
Programs
Director, Policy, Training, and Vera C. Winkler
Analysis Service
Director, Accounting and Linda L. Paulsen
Financial Management Service
Director, Program Systems Service Carolyn J. Seifert,
Acting
Director, Institutional Marianne Phelps
Participation and Oversight
Service
Director, Regional Operations Bonnie L. LeBold
Division
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Director, Debt Collection Service Thomas J. Petska
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Claudio R. Prieto
Higher Education Programs
Director, Center for Richard D. Scarfo
International Education
Chief Financial Officer Donald R. Wurtz
Director, Financial Services Mitchell L. Laine
Director, Grants and Contracts Mary P. Liggett, Acting
Service
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The Department of Education establishes policy for, administers, and
coordinates most Federal assistance to education. Its mission is to
ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence
throughout the Nation.
The Department of Education was created by the Department of Education
Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3411). The Department is administered under
the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Education.
Office of the Secretary
Secretary The Secretary of Education advises the President on education
plans, policies, and programs of the Federal Government. The Secretary
also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Department,
coordinating and overseeing all Department activities, providing support
and encouragement to States and localities on matters related to
education, and focusing the resources of the Department and the
attention of the country on ensuring equal access to education and
promoting educational excellence throughout the Nation. The Deputy
Secretary, the Under Secretary, the Assistant Secretaries, the Inspector
General, the General Counsel, and the Chief Financial Officer are the
principal officers who assist the Secretary in the overall management of
the Department.
Activities
Bilingual Education The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority
Languages Affairs administers programs designed to fund activities that
assist students with limited English proficiency. The Office administers
the discretionary grant competition for 12 grant programs established by
law and 2 formula grant programs under the Immigrant Education Program.
The Office also administers contracts for research and evaluation,
technical assistance, and clearinghouse activities to meet the special
educational needs of populations with limited English proficiency.
Civil Rights The Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights is responsible
for ensuring that institutional recipients of Federal financial
assistance do not discriminate against American students, faculty, or
other individuals on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex,
handicap, or age.
Elementary and Secondary Education The Assistant Secretary for
Elementary and Secondary Education formulates policy for, directs, and
coordinates the Department's activities relating to preschool,
elementary, and secondary education. Included are grants and contracts
to State educational agencies and local school districts, postsecondary
schools, and nonprofit organizations for State and local reform,
compensatory, migrant, and Indian education; drug-free schools; other
school improvement programs; and impact aid.
Educational Research and Improvement The Assistant Secretary for
Educational Research and Improvement provides national leadership in
expanding fundamental knowledge and improving the quality of education.
This Office is responsible for conducting and supporting education-
related research activities; monitoring the state of education through
the collection and analysis of statistical data; promoting the use and
application of research and development to improve instructional
practices in the classroom; and disseminating these findings and
providing technical assistance for specific problems at school sites.
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Vocational and Adult Education The Assistant Secretary for Vocational
and Adult Education administers grant, contract, and technical
assistance programs for vocational-technical education and for adult
education and literacy. The Office is also responsible for coordinating
these programs with other Education Department and Federal programs
supporting services and research for adult education, literacy, and
occupational training.
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services The Assistant Secretary
for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services is responsible for
special education programs and services expressly designed to meet the
needs and develop the full potential of children with disabilities; and
comprehensive rehabilitation service programs specifically designed to
reduce human dependency, to increase self-reliance, and to fully utilize
the productive capabilities of all persons with disabilities. Programs
include support for training of teachers and other professional
personnel; grants for research; financial aid to help States initiate,
expand, and improve their resources; and media services and captioned
films for hearing-impaired persons.
Postsecondary Education The Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
Education formulates policy and directs and coordinates programs for
assistance to postsecondary educational institutions and students
pursuing a postsecondary education. Programs include assistance for the
improvement and expansion of American educational resources for
international studies and services, grants to improve instruction in
crucial academic subjects, and construction assistance for academic
facilities. Also included are programs of student financial assistance,
including Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants,
Grants to States for State Student Incentives, Work-Study, Federal
Direct Student Loans, Stafford Loans, Parent Loans for Undergraduate
Students (PLUS), Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS), Consolidation
Loans, and Perkins Loans.
Administration and implementation of the Federal Direct Loan Program
is under the authority of the Senior Adviser to the Secretary through
September 30, 1996.
Regional Offices Each regional office serves as a center for the
dissemination of information and provides technical assistance to State
and local educational agencies and other institutions and individuals
interested in Federal education activities. Offices are located in
Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Kansas
City, MO; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; and
Seattle, WA.
Federally Aided Corporations
[These Corporations are supported in part by Federal funds appropriated
in the budget of the Department of Education.]
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American Printing House for the Blind
P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206
Phone, 502-895-2405
President Tuck Tinsley
Chairman of the Board John Barr III
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The American Printing House for the Blind was incorporated by the
Kentucky Legislature in 1858 to assist in the education of the blind by
distributing Braille books, talking books, and educational aids without
cost to educational institutions educating blind children pursuant to
the act ``To Promote the Education of the Blind,'' as amended (20 Stat.
467), adopted by Congress in 1879.
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Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002
Phone, 202-651-5000
Chairman, Board of Trustees Glenn B. Anderson
President, Gallaudet University I. King Jordan
Vice President, Academic Affairs Roslyn Rosen
Vice President, Administration and Business Paul Kelly
Vice President, Institutional Advancement Margarete Hall
Vice President, Precollege National Mission Jane K. Fernandes
Programs
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The Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and
the Blind was incorporated by act of February 16, 1857 (11 Stat. 161).
An amendatory act of February 23, 1865 (13 Stat. 436), changed the name
to the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.
The name was subsequently changed to Columbia Institution for the Deaf
by act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat. 1422). The act of June 18, 1954 (20
U.S.C. 691 et seq.), changed its name to Gallaudet College. The
Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301) changed the name to
Gallaudet University.
Gallaudet University was established to provide a liberal higher
education for deaf persons who need special facilities to compensate for
their loss of hearing. The primary purpose of the university is to
afford its students the intellectual and spiritual development that can
be acquired through a study of the liberal arts and sciences.
In addition to its undergraduate program, the University operates a
graduate program at the master's level to prepare teachers and other
professional personnel to work with persons who are deaf, a research
program focusing on problems related to deafness, and continuing
education for deaf adults.
Accreditation Gallaudet University is accredited by the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the Council on Social Work
Education.
Model Secondary School for the Deaf The school was established by act
of October 15, 1966 (20 U.S.C. 693), when the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare entered into an agreement with Gallaudet College
for the establishment and operation, including construction, of such a
facility. It was established as an exemplary educational facility for
deaf students of high school age from the District of Columbia,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the rest
of the Nation on a space-available basis. The school's mission is to
provide maximum flexibility in curricula and to encourage the
originality, imagination, and innovation needed to satisfy deaf
students' high aspirations.
The objectives of the school are to provide day and residential
facilities for deaf youth of high school age, in order to prepare some
for college and other advanced study and to provide terminal education
for others; to prepare all students to the maximum extent possible to be
independent, contributing
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members of society; and to stimulate the development of similar programs
throughout the Nation.
Kendall Demonstration Elementary School The School became the Nation's
first demonstration elementary school for the deaf by act of December
24, 1970 (20 U.S.C. 695), which authorized Gallaudet College to operate
and maintain it as a model that will experiment in techniques and
materials, and to disseminate information from these and future projects
to educational facilities for deaf children throughout the country. The
School is located on the campus of Gallaudet University and now serves
approximately 200 students.
For further information, contact the Public Relations Office, Gallaudet
University, 800 Florida Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20002. Phone, 202-
651-5505. Internet, http://www.gallaudet.edu/.
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Howard University
2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, DC 20059
Phone, 202-806-6100
President H. Patrick Swygert
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Howard University was established by act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat.
438). It is governed by a 27-member self-perpetuating board of trustees.
The University maintains a special relationship with the Federal
Government through the Department of Education.
Howard University, jointly supported by congressional appropriations
and private funds, is a comprehensive university organization offering
instruction in 17 schools and colleges as follows: the college of
liberal arts, the school of engineering, the school of architecture and
planning, the school of business and public administration, the college
of fine arts, the college of medicine, the college of dentistry, the
college of pharmacy and pharmaceutical science, the school of law, the
school of religion, the graduate school, the school of social work, the
school of communications, the school of education, the college of
nursing, the school of human ecology, the college of allied health
sciences, and a summer school. In addition, Howard University has
research institutes in the following areas: the arts and the humanities,
urban affairs and research, drug abuse and addiction, minority business
education, and the study of educational policy.
The University is coeducational and admits students of every race,
creed, color, and national origin, but it accepts and discharges a
special responsibility for the admission and training of black students.
For further information, contact the Office of University
Communications, Howard University, 2400 Sixth Street NW., Washington, DC
20001. Phone, 202-806-0970.
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National Institute for Literacy
Suite 200, 800 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20006
Phone, 202-632-1500
Director Andrew Hartman
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The National Institute for Literacy is administered under an interagency
agreement among the Secretaries of Education, Labor, and Health and
Human Services. The Institute's mission is to enhance the national
effort to eliminate illiteracy by the year 2000 by creating a national
network and serving as a focal point for coordination and dissemination
of information.
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National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Rochester Institute of Technology
52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623
Phone, 716-475-6853 (voice/TDD)
President, Rochester Institute of Technology Albert J. Simone
Dean and Interim Director, National Technical James DeCaro
Institute for the Deaf
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The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) was established by
act of June 8, 1965 (20 U.S.C. 681), and after several years of
planning, programs began in 1968. Funded primarily through the
Department of Education, it is an integral part of a larger institution
known as the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
The presence of NTID at RIT is the first effort to educate large
numbers of deaf students within a college campus planned primarily for
hearing students. Unique in the world, NTID is a vital part of RIT's
main 1,300-acre campus in suburban Rochester, NY. It provides
educational opportunities for qualified students from every State in the
Nation and, through educational outreach, publications, and related
service, serves deaf persons throughout the world. In addition, NTID
conducts research to better understand the role of deafness in education
and employment, and to develop innovative teaching techniques. It
develops training activities for its faculty and staff, as well as for
other professionals working with deaf persons across the country.
One of the major reasons for NTID's success in helping deaf students
join the mainstream of American life is its close working relationship
with other RIT colleges in developing career-oriented programs of study.
One of RIT's main strengths over the years has been its ability to adapt
its educational programs to technological and social change, and NTID
helps keep that tradition alive. It has served more than 7,000 deaf
students since 1968.
Deaf graduates from RIT have found employment throughout the Nation
or have moved on to advanced academic studies. Of those who pursued
employment, more than 90 percent have been placed in jobs; 93 percent in
jobs commensurate with their educational preparation. Of those employed,
80 percent work in business and industry, more than 11 percent in
government, and the remainder in education.
The Institutes accept applications from U.S. residents, as well as a
limited number of international students. An overall eighth grade
achievement level or above is required, and, except under special
circumstances, an applicant must have completed a secondary program. An
applicant also must show evidence of need for special services because
of hearing loss and have an unaided better ear average of 70dB ISO.
International applicants generally are required to take the Test of
English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and must provide documentation of
availability of financial resources to meet the full cost of attending
RIT. References are requested.
Both Institutes are accredited by the Middle States Association of
Colleges
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and Secondary Schools. Rochester Institute of Technology also has been
accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development,
National Association of Schools of Art, Committee on Professional
Training of American Chemical Society, Council on Social Work Education,
and the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.
For further information, contact the Rochester Institute of Technology,
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Department of Recruitment and
Admissions, Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, 52 Lomb Memorial Drive,
Rochester, NY 14623-5604. Phone, 716-475-6700.
Sources of Information
Inquiries on the following information may be directed to the specified
office, Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20202.
Contracts and Small Business Activities Call or write the Office of
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Phone, 202-708-9820.
Employment Inquiries and applications for employment, and inquiries
regarding the college recruitment program, should be directed to the
Human Resources Group. Phone, 202-401-0553.
Organization Contact the Management Systems Improvement Group. Phone,
202-260-8973. TDD, 202-260-8956.
For further information, contact the Information Center, Department of
Education, Room 4608 (ROB3), 600 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC
20202. Phone, 800-USA-LEARN. Internet, http://www.ed.gov/.