SEC. 5. USE OF AMOUNTS.
The Secretary may not provide a grant under section
3 to an eligible entity unless the entity agrees that it will
use all amounts received from such grant to establish and
carry out a program in accordance with 1 or more of the
following guidelines:
(1) The development of instructional material
concerning efforts designed to address cultural and
workforce diversity issues within the workplace set-
ting.
(2) The development of public and private sec-
tor education and training materials that will ad-
dress the issues of workforce and cultural diversity.
(3) The development of new approaches to
workforce diversity issues and scholarship efforts to
be integrated within the curriculum of business
schools, ethnic and women’s studies, engineering
schools, social science disciplines, humanities and the
arts and sciences. In using grant funds under this
paragraph, a grantee may employ approaches to be
carried out in conjunction with corporate education
and training programs.
(4) 
The 
conduct 
of 
research 
concerning
multicultural workplace interactions and team man-
agement and business in multicultural and multi-lin-
gual marketplace settings.
(5) The implementation of faculty development
programs that focus on research, appropriate learn-
ing environments, and pedagogical approaches to
teaching multicultural management and work diver-
sity issues.
(6) The development and dissemination of in-
formation concerning models for summer precollege
business internship programs that aid in integrating
the workplace and in giving students a better under-
standing of the private sector and of workforce di-
versity issues.
(7) The conduct of forums, workshops, and con-
ferences in which representatives from academic,
corporate, government, or other institutions with a
demonstrated interest or expertise in workforce di-
versity will focus on issues, attitudes, and strategies
that sensitize managers, employees, faculty, cor-
porate, government, and other leaders and workers
to workplace diversity issues.
(8) Any other activities that the Secretary de-
termines to be appropriate to meet the purposes of
this Act.
SEC. 6. SELECTION.
(a) CRITERIA
FOR
SELECTION.—In determining
whether to provide a grant under section 3, the Secretary
shall take into account—
(1) the extent to which the eligible entity dem-
onstrates the potential to achieve 1 or more of the
guidelines described in section 5;
(2) the level of participation and financial com-
mitment of the eligible entity;
(3) the likelihood that the program to be estab-
lished under section 5 by the eligible entity will fos-
ter the creation of increased workforce and cultural
diversity awareness programs in other institutional
environments;
(4) the likelihood that the program will result
in the development and dissemination of national or
regional best practices;
(5) the extent to which the program will impact
on the international competitiveness of the United
States economy; and
(6) such other criteria as the Secretary may
prescribe.
(b) PRIORITY.—In providing grants under section 3,
the Secretary shall give priority to those eligible entities
that demonstrate the availability of sufficient amounts of
non-Federal contributions or resources from non-govern-
mental entities.
SEC. 7. PEER REVIEW.
The Secretary shall establish peer review panels to
review the merits of applications submitted under section
4. In establishing such panels, the Secretary shall seek the
widest participation of qualified individuals from eligible
entities. Each peer review panel shall report the findings
and recommendations of the panel to the Secretary with
respect to applications submitted under section 4.
SEC. 8. FEDERAL AND NON-FEDERAL SHARE.
(a) FEDERAL SHARE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Federal share under a grant provided
under section 3 may not exceed 50 percent of the
total cost of the program established and carried out
under section 5 for any fiscal year.
(2) EXCEPTION.—If the Secretary, after con-
sultation with the peer review panel, determines that
to do so will further the purposes of this Act, the
Secretary may increase the amount of the Federal
share with respect to the program.
(b) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—The non-Federal share
shall be provided from non-Federal sources and may be
in cash or in-kind, fairly evaluated.
SEC. 9. REPORTS.
(a) REPORTS TO THE SECRETARY.—The Secretary
may not provide a grant under section 3 to an eligible
entity unless the entity agrees that it will prepare and sub-
mit an annual report to the Secretary which shall in-
clude—
(1) a summary of the progress of the activities
established and carried out under the grant to
achieve the purposes of this Act;
(2) a summary of the expenditures involved in
establishing and carrying out such activities;
(3) a plan that describes the proposed use of
funds for the subsequent fiscal year;
(4) a description of the success or failure of the
implementation of the program in accordance with 1
or more of the guidelines described in section 5,
where appropriate; and
(5) any other information that the Secretary
determines to be appropriate.
(b) REPORTS TO THE CONGRESS.—The Secretary
shall annually prepare and submit to the Committee on
Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and
the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the
Senate a report that shall include an evaluation of the
progress made in achieving the purposes of this Act.
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out
this Act $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1995 and such sums
as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1996
through 1999.
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