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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 646', '§646', '§646', '§646', '§646', '§646', '§646', '§646', '§646', '§646', 'art 646', '§646']

Title 34 → Subtitle B → Chapter VI → Part 646
§646.1 What is the Student Support Services Program?
§646.2 Who is eligible to receive a grant?
§646.3 Who is eligible to participate in a Student Support Services project?
§646.5 How long is a project period?
§646.6 What regulations apply?
§646.10 How many applications may an eligible applicant submit and for what different populations may an eligible application be submitted?
§646.11 What assurances and other information must an applicant include in an application?
§646.23 How does the Secretary set the amount of a grant?
§646.31 What are unallowable costs?
Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a-11 and 1070a-14, unless otherwise noted.
Source: 61 FR 38537, July 24, 1996, unless otherwise noted.
[61 FR 38537, July 24, 1996, as amended at 75 FR 65790, Oct. 26, 2010]
An institution of higher education or a combination of institutions of higher education is eligible to receive a grant to carry out a Student Support Services project.
(b) Is enrolled at the grantee institution or accepted for enrollment in the next academic term at that institution.
(c) Has a need for academic support, as determined by the grantee, in order to pursue successfully a postsecondary educational program.
(d) Is—
(1) A low-income individual;
A project period under the Student Support Services program is five years.
The following regulations apply to the Student Support Services Program:
(b) The regulations in this part 646.
Source: 75 FR 65791, Oct. 26, 2010, unless otherwise noted.
(a) An eligible applicant may submit more than one application as long as each application describes a project that serves a different campus or a designated different population.
(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a-11 and 1070a-14; 20 U.S.C. 1221e-3)
(a) An applicant must assure the Secretary in the application that—
(1) Not less than two-thirds of the project participants will be—
(i) Low-income individuals who are first generation college students; or
(2) The remaining project participants will be low-income individuals, first generation college students, or individuals with disabilities; and
(3) Not less than one-third of the individuals with disabilities served also will be low-income individuals.
(b) The applicant must describe in the application its efforts, and where applicable, past history, in—
(1) Providing sufficient financial assistance to meet the full financial need of each student in the project; and
(2) Maintaining the loan burden of each student in the project at a manageable level.
(c) The applicant must assure the Secretary in the application that a student will not be served by more than one SSS project at any one time and that the SSS project will collaborate with other SSS and McNair projects and other State and institutional programs at the grantee-institution so that more students can be served.
(d) The applicant must assure the Secretary in the application that the institution's financial aid office will consult with the SSS project with respect to which SSS participants should receive grant aid and the amount of the grant aid awards.
[61 FR 38537, July 24, 1996, as amended at 75 FR 65792, Oct. 26, 2010]
Costs that may not be charged against a grant under the Student Support Services Program include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) Costs involved in recruiting students for enrollment at the institution.
(b) Tuition, fees, stipends, and other forms of direct financial support, except for Grant aid under §646.30(i) for staff or participants.
(d) Construction, renovation, or remodeling of any facilities.